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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.
Horace 'The Epistles', Book I Epistle I: A new, downloadable English translation.
poem 15. Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors, The shield at once and glory of my life! There are who joy them in the Olympic strife And love the dust they gather in the course; The goal by hot wheels shunn'd, the famous prize, Exalt them to the gods that rule mankind; This joys, if rabbles fickle as the wind Through triple grade of honours bid ...
Maecenas atavis edite regibus, o et praesidium et dulce decus meum: sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum. collegisse iuvat metaque fervidis. evitata rotis palmaque nobilis. terrarum dominos evehit ad deos. hunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium. certat tergeminis tollere honoribus, illum, si proprio condidit horreo.
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace). Horace, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. H. Rushton Fairclough. London; Cambridge, Massachusetts. William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press. 1929. Keyboarding. The Mellon Foundation provided support for entering this text.
11 lis 2004 · THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ODES OF HORACE. ODE I. TO MAECENAS. Maecenas, descended from royal ancestors, O both my protection and my darling honor! There are those whom it delights to have collected Olympic dust in the chariot race; and [whom] the goal nicely avoided by the glowing wheels, and the noble palm, exalts, lords of the earth, to the gods.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) The Odes His Lyrics in Greek Metres in four books in a new English translation. Browse below; Download; Book I (Includes: 'Persicus odi', 'Carpe diem', 'Integer Vitae' ) Book II (Includes: 'Eheu fugaces')
