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hounds catch sight of a deer, or a Marsian. wild boar rampages, through his close meshes. But the ivy, the glory of learned brows, joins me to the gods on high: cool groves, and the gathering of light nymphs and satyrs, draw me from the throng, if Euterpe the Muse.
Hear how the frame creaks, how the trees that are planted inside your beautiful garden moan in the wind, and how Jupiter’s pure power and divinity
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.
you famous defendant of troubled clients, Pollio , support of the Senate’s councils, whom the laurel gave lasting glory. in the form of your Dalmatian triumph. Already you’re striking our ears with the sounds, the menace of blaring horns, and the trumpets, already the glitter of weapons.
Like a pine tree struck with the biting steel or a cypress blown over by the East Wind, he fell on his face, covering much ground, and laid his neck in the dust of Troy.
11 lis 2004 · ODE XIII. TO A TREE. O tree, he planted thee on an unlucky day whoever did it first, and with an impious hand raised thee for the destruction of posterity, and the scandal of the village. I could believe that he had broken his own father's neck, and stained his most secret apartments with the midnight blood of his guest.
13 wrz 2024 · The life of Horace, although spent in the society of those who were most actively mixed up with public affairs, is rather a detail of every-day transactions with the ordinary world, a table-talk of private acts and feelings, than a succession of stirring political relations, exploits, and embarrassments.
