The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett: “as appears in Van Vloudel’s translation of Horace, in that beautiful ode, Quis multa gracilis, &c.”
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett: “for Horace uses the words poto and bibo indifferently for the same purpose, as in the twentieth Ode of his first Book.”
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini: “lounged Peter Blood, a calf-bound, well-thumbed copy of Horace's Odes neglected in his hands”
The Well of Saint Clare by Anatole France: “Serus in caelum redeas.--Ode 2 of Book I, addressed to Augustus.”
Artful by Ali Smith: “Shakespeare's original source for Sonnet 55, Horace's Odes: exegi monumentum aere perennius”
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett: “… of this truth, he immediately produced a sample of each, which, though in spirit and versification as different as the Odes of Horace and our present poet-laureat, Peregrine did not scruple to pronounce altogether congenial, notwithstanding the violence he by this sentence offered to his own consci…”