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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
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 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.
All the odes and epodes of Horace. Translated into English verse: by Henry Rider, Master of Arts of Emmanuel Colledge in Camebridge
It is clear that Horace has carefully arranged his collection of Epodes Most obviously, there is the metrical sequence, with the first ten poems using an iambic couplet and the concluding seven ranging widely— combinations of iambic and dactylic elements in 11 and 13-16, dactyls in 12, straight iambic trimeters in 17.
Bear (Arctus), the constellation, hence the far north, I.26.3, II.15.16. Bellerophon, rejected the over–tures of King Proetus’ wife, Sthenoboea, was accused of attempting to seduce her, and was sent to fight the Chimaera, which he killed; he tamed and rode the winged horse, Pegasus, III.7.15, 12.8; IV.11.28.
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.
