ABSTRACT
Horace's collected odes of books 1–3 were released to the public in 23. At some date prior to that he dedicated a poem to Plancus later appeared as the seventh in the first book, one of the so-called "parade odes." Ode 1.7 was sent to Plancus as an individual presentation some time before Horace "published" the first three books. Horace gives no indication that Tiburis tui means anything more than that Tibur was a favorite residence of Plancus where he presumably owned property, not that it was the family home as stated by Porphyry and followed by nearly all commentators since. In line 14 Tibur had appeared in the poet's judgment as preferable to illustrious places in the Greek East, but it is "your Tibur," Tiburis tui. In this political and cultural context Horace decided that he could place the originally personal ode to Plancus in a conspicuous position when he released three books of odes.
