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Satires and Odes print Maecenas as a gift-and-protection patron

Dated 1 January 37: Satires and Odes print Maecenas as a gift-and-protection patron. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Twin of literary access. Horace did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Horace Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Horace’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional years are 65–8 BCE. Philippi, Maecenas, and the Carmen Saeculare are received chronology.

Why it matters

Twin of literary access.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Horace

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — HoraceEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Loeb — Horace, Satires, Epistles, Ars PoeticaHarvard University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Horace did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorHorace
  2. contributed toFactSatires and Odes print Maecenas as a gift-and-protection patron
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Satires and Odes print Maecenas as a gift-and-protection patron. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/hor-patronage-maecenas

https://factrail.ai/facts/hor-patronage-maecenas

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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