Satires (Horace) say that Lucilius' verses hobble along"), functions as an epilogue to the book. Here Horace clarifies his criticism of his predecessor Lucilius, jokingly explains his choice of the genre ("nothing else was available") in a way that groups him and his "Satires" among the foremost poets of Rome, and lists Maecenas and his circle as his desired audience. Both in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, Horace was much better known for his "Satires" and the thematically-related "Epistles" than for his lyric poetry. In the century after his death, he finds immediate successors in Persius and Juvenal, and even Dante
Pauline epistles as it was common to attribute at that point in history. Seven letters (with consensus dates) considered genuine by most scholars: The letters on which scholars are about evenly divided: The letters thought to be pseudepigraphic by about 80% of scholars: Finally, Epistle to the Hebrews, though anonymous and not really in the form of a letter, has long been included among Paul's collected letters, but most scholars now regard it as not written by Paul. Paul's own writings are often thought to indicate several of his letters that have not been preserved: Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, Epistles of