Abstract
Exegi monumentum aere perenniusregalique situ pyramidum altius,quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotenspossit diruere aut innumerabilisannorum series et fuga temporum.Horace, Odes 3.30.1–5I have finished a monument more durable than bronze and higher than the royal situs of the pyramids, the kind which neither biting rain nor the uncontrolled North Wind can destroy, or the procession of unnumbered years or flying time. The paper argues that altius in line 2 is variously inappropriate; a clue to the true reading is to be found in the passage of Pindar to which Horace is alluding.
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