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sacred hills with fiery hand, to scare the city, and scare the people, lest again. we know Pyrrha’s age of pain. when Proteus his sea-herds drove. across high mountains, and fishes lodged in all the elms, that used to be the haunt of doves, and the trembling roe-deer swam.
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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.
Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. John Conington. trans. London. George Bell and Sons. 1882. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
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.
11 lis 2004 · THE THIRD BOOK OF THE ODES OF HORACE. ODE I. ON CONTENTMENT. I abominate the uninitiated vulgar, and keep them at a distance. Preserve a religious silence: I, the priest of the Muses, sing to virgins and boys verses not heard before.
23 sty 2024 · Literal English Translation. Original Latin. Line. Now it is time to drink; now with loose feet it is time for beating the earth; now it is time to decorate the gods' sacred couch for Salian feasts, comrades.
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.
