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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
We have seen how Horace exhorts his companions in Epodes 13 to ‘snatch’ (rapio) the occasion and to ‘move’ (moueo) some wine to the banquet. As Horace addresses Lyde, he conflates time and wine: Lyde is asked to snatch an amphora as well as an elusive moment in time.
Let us abandon our city like the Phocaeans of old, and swear a mighty oath not to return till stones shall swim and the lion lie down with the lamb (15-38). Somewhere in the western seas the fabled islands of the blest await us, reserved by Jupiter for the saving remnant of the golden age in an age of iron. Cf. Epode 7.
Horace refers to Archilochus in Epodes 6.13, where he couples him with Hipponax, who in the sixth century made a famous attack on the sculptor Bupalus. The “iambic” writers did not confine themselves to the iambic metre, and the same is true of Horace.
HORACE, ODES 1.30* ABSTRACT This brief poem (Hor. Carm. 1.30) is by turns enigmatic (what is the purpose of Horace’s prayer to Venus?) and slightly incoherent (why shouldboth Horace and Glycera be praying to Venus? Are they praying for the same thing or for different things? Either has its problems). A further problem is that, if Horace ...
Lowrie ( 2009 ), Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace Odes and Epodes, offers a collection of articles on both the Epodes and Odes that span the twentieth century, incorporating scholarship representative of a range of critical approaches and nationalities.
The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace’s first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon.
