Dimitrie C. Ollănescu-Ascanio 1876, he entered the diplomatic field, serving as "chargé d'affaires" at Constantinople, Vienna and Athens. He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1893, and was vice president of its literary section. He belonged to "Junimea" society until 1895. His published debut came about in 1870 in "Foaia Societății "Românismul”", with a selection of "doina" lyrics. He also contributed to "Convorbiri Literare" and "Literatură și artă română" magazines, as well as to "Voința națională" and "România Liberă" newspapers. He translated Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas" and odes, epodes, "Epistles", the two "Satires" and "Ars Poetica" by Horace, earning
Satires (Juvenal) discretion. The author makes constant allusion to history and myth as a source of object lessons or exemplars of particular vices and virtues. Coupled with his dense and elliptical Latin, these tangential references indicate that the intended reader of the "Satires" was highly educated. The "Satires" are concerned with perceived threats to the social continuity of the Roman citizens: social-climbing foreigners, unfaithfulness, and other more extreme excesses of their own class. The intended audience of the "Satires" constituted a subset of the Roman elite, primarily adult males of a more conservative social stance. Scholarly estimates for the dating of the