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Horace 'The Epodes' and 'Carmen Saeculare': a new, downloadable English translation.
Somewhere in the western seas the fabled islands of the blest await us, reserved by Jupiter for the saving remnant of the golden age in an age of iron. Cf. Epode 7. The poem may have been written at the outbreak of the Perusine war, B.c. 41.
'The profusion of detail is a mark of Horace's earlier muse' (Sellar), but the poem is very beautiful, and is converted into a satire only by the Heinesque surprise at the close. Cf. Sellar, pp. 126-127.
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.
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 .
voice for a particular transposition of a couplet in Horace's sixteenth epode as it is to present a fair airing of a problem which admits three solutions, each of them attractive at one time or
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.
