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Translator’s Note. Horace fully exploited the metrical possibilities offered to him by Greek lyric verse. I have followed the original Latin metre in all cases, giving a reasonably close English version of Horace’s strict forms. Rhythm not rhyme is the essence.
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Odes, Book 3, Poem 2. To suffer hardness with good cheer, In sternest school of warfare bred, Our youth should learn; let steed and spear. Make him one day the Parthian's dread; Cold skies, keen perils, brace his life. Methinks I see from rampired town.
Translator’s Note. Horace fully exploited the metrical possibilities offered to him by Greek lyric verse. I have followed the original Latin metre in all cases, giving a reasonably close English version of Horace’s strict forms. Rhythm not rhyme is the essence.
Odes : book iii / Horace ; edited by A.J. Woodman. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, . | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin classics | Includes bibliographical references.
8 gru 2021 · Shakes the man who is righteous and set in purpose. From his strong mind, nor the East Wind, the tempestuous ruler of the restless Adriatic, nor the great hand of thundering Jupiter: if the shattered world collapsed, him, fearless, the debris would strike.
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.
9 gru 2021 · Horace: Odes Book III. A. J. Woodman. Cambridge University Press, Dec 9, 2021 - History. Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest...
