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book i., in which there is some trace of an angry republican feeling,

belong to these early compositions. But by the time the first book of _Satires_ was completed and published (35 B.C.) his temper had recovered its natural serenity, and, though he had not yet attained to the height of his fortunes, his personal position was one of comfort and security, and his intimate relation wi...