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Thus, in the Soracte ode, Horace addresses a certain Thaliarchus and asks him to ‘serve the four-year-old wine more generously than usual from its Sabine jar’ (C. 1.9.6–8): benignius | deprome quadrimum Sabina, | o Thaliarche, merum diota. This is the exhortation to carpe diem in the poem.
The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when—as has usually been the case—a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace’s infinite variety.
202 THE ODES OF HORACE. In 1.3 on Virgil's voyage to Greece and the criminal daring of. mankind Mr. Ferry successfully substitutes a seven-line stanza. of uniform line length for Horace's quatrains of alternating gly. conics and lesser asclepiads. In 1.4 Mr. Ferry breaks ground and translates Horace's quat.
The Odes (Latin: Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace. The Horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. Books 1 to 3 were published in 23 BC. A fourth book, consisting of 15 poems, was published in 13 BC.
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.
5 mar 2003 · These are good times for fans of verse translations of Horace’s Odes. This version of the 103 odes of Books 1-4, plus the Carmen Saeculare, follows a recent version of the Odes and Epodes by David West (Oxford World’s Classics, 1997), while classic and historic translations are well represented in two recent paperback anthologies — Horace ...
11 lis 2004 · The ocean encircling the land awaits us; let us seek the happy plains and prospering Islands, where the untilled land yearly produces corn, and the unpruned vineyard punctually flourishes; and where the branch of the never-failing olive blossoms forth, and the purple fig adorns its native tree: honey distills from the hollow oaks; the light ...
