La valeur mémorielle du récit de voyage dans la satire 1, 5 d’Horace

In satire 1, 5, Horace gives a detailed account of the journey he undertook from Rome to Brundisium to accompany Maecenas on a diplomatic mission. The memorial value of the poem is not obvious: it does not present itself as a monumentum intended to immortalize the political action of the Aretino under the second triumvirate, and while the poet gives a representation of himself, it seems to have above all a metapoetical function. It is by considering the construction of memory as a process and by putting satire 1, 5 in perspective with odes or epistles in which it is also a question of travel and Maecenas that we can measure the memory value of the Iter Brundisinum. Satire 1, 5 inaugurates series of poems that have constructed and immortalized the image of Horace as an amicus priuatus of Maecenas, as an eternal proficiens or as the poet of the aurea mediocritas.