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Who is the ancient Roman poet who put forward the principle of entertaining?

The idea of entertaining education was first put forward by Horace, an ancient Roman poet and literary theorist, in The Art of Poetry.

Shen Yulun Horace Flach (Latin: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Greek: ορ? τιο? Venosa, Italy, February 8th, 65438+65 years ago? -Rome, Italy, 8 years ago,165438+127 October), a famous poet, critic and translator during the reign of Augustus of the Roman Empire, whose masterpiece is The Art of Poetry.

He is one of the representatives of the "golden age" of ancient Roman literature. Together with Virgil Ovid, they are called the three great poets in ancient Rome. As a translator, influenced by Cicero's literary criticism and theory, he spent a lot of time talking about the application of language and translation in his creation. To sum up, there are two main points: translation must adhere to live translation and abandon literal translation; The mother tongue can be enriched by translating and borrowing foreign words. In The Art of Poetry, he said: "A translator who is faithful to the original text will not translate word for word".