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Set me down on the lifeless plains, where no trees spring to life in the burning midsummer wind, that wide stretch of the world that’s burdened by mists
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
This study presents a more holistic interpretation of the ode by exploring Horace's interactions with previously unnoticed (Alcaeus, frr. 45 and 347) and underappreciated (Hes. Op. 582–96) archaic Greek poetic intertexts, which also offer a fresh perspective on earlier debates.
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.
beat the ground with their snow-white feet, in a triple measure, like Salian dancers. Women and boys can’t please me now, nor those innocent hopes of mutual feeling, nor wine-drinking competitions, nor foreheads circled by freshly-gathered flowers. But why, ah Ligurinus, why.
THE FOVRTH BOOK of the Odes of HORACE. ODE I. A complaint that Venus hath made him a lover againe: he dotes upon Ligurinus, and desires Venus to forsake him, and goe to the house of Paulus Maximus.
2 wrz 2016 · Google Scholar, views the poem as a serious pastoral, a seriousness evidenced most famously in the fact that well into the last century the Germans often sang the first strophe of this ode as a funeral hymn, as Fraenkel, E., Horace (Oxford 1967), 184 Google Scholar and n.3, reports.
