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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
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. The poem may have been written at the outbreak of the Perusine war, B.c. 41.
The Epodes (Latin: Epodi or Epodon liber; also called Iambi) are a collection of iambic poems written by the Roman poet Horace. They were published in 30 BC and form part of his early work alongside the Satires.
Horace takes us to milk; and from the water's plashing foot we turn to animals walking home, their udders distended with milk. The remaining pattern of 49-52 may be caught in the following key words : capellae . . . grex . . . ursus . . . ovile . . . viperis . . . humus. From the first pair of tame capellae and grex we move to the
The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text.
Horace The Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare. A new complete downloadable English translation of the Odes and other poetry translations including Lorca, Petrarch, Propertius, and Mandelshtam.
Epistles 1, published in 20 or 19 bc, 16 is often regarded as reflecting a mature posture appropriate to the aging poet: the ironized philosophically suspect narrator of the Satires is absent, replaced by an ethically sensitive figure who asserts his devotion to what is verum atque decens (‘right and appropriate’, Epist. 1.1.11).
