# Odes Book 4 is issued as a late Augustan lyric commission Date: 13 ## The fact About 13 BCE Horace issued Odes Book 4, a late lyric book with dynastic victory odes. The dated fourth book is not the 23 BCE three-book Odes praise-row and not the Carmen Saeculare of 17. [Horace](/people/horace)’s documented role is: He published a fourth odes book after the Carmen Saeculare, including praise of Tiberius and Drusus. Augustus’s house wanted lyric; he wrote; later school-canon is not 13 BCE. Do not twin this with hor-augustan-court-poetry of 23. Book 4 is a later commission. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Horace's documented role is: He published a fourth odes book after the Carmen Saeculare, including praise of Tiberius and Drusus. Augustus’s house wanted lyric; he wrote; later school-canon is not 13 BCE. ## Context Augustus’s request, unnamed copyists, and Tiberius/Drusus as honorands already sit in the file. A late book is not unique authorship of Alpine wars. Later school selections are not 13 BCE type. Named others on the file: Augustus as commissioner, Tiberius and Drusus as honorands, and later editors share the book. The public setting is the file around -0013-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Odes Book 4 is issued as a late Augustan lyric commission. The setting of Odes Book 4 is issued as a late Augustan lyric commission is the public file around -0013-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. ## Evidence and sources Britannica independently dates Odes IV as a late book distinct from the 23 BCE collection. Official: Britannica — Horace, Odes Book IV (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Loeb — Horace, Odes as later bilingual (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995796; [Harvard University](/organizations/harvard-university) Press). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Horace, Odes Book IV (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Loeb — Horace, Odes as later bilingual (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995796; Harvard University Press). Official or archival record: Britannica — Horace, Odes Book IV (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Worsening polarisation path: late dynastic lyric as public court praise. Complex shared commission. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated late lyric book put public dynastic praise into the post-Carmen file, distinct from Odes 1–3 as 23 BCE court verse. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening. Shared responsibility is part of Odes Book 4 is issued as a late Augustan lyric commission. Naming Horace does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0013-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. ## What is established and what is not Established: Odes Book 4 as a late Augustan issue. Not established: that 23 BCE Odes 1–3 are this same book. Established: a sourced public record of Odes Book 4 is issued as a late Augustan lyric commission under -0013-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Odes Book 4 is issued as a late Augustan lyric commission under -0013-01-01. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with hor-augustan-court-poetry of 23. Book 4 is a later commission. Mixed effects of Odes Book 4 is issued as a late Augustan lyric commission are separate paths. ## People - Horace: https://factrail.ai/people/horace ## Drivers - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995796 - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Roman-poet ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hor-odes-4-13