Odes

Horace

Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882.

  • Their stars at sea,
  • The lash'd spray trickles from the steep,
  • The wind sinks down, the storm-cloud flies,
  • The threatening billow on the deep
  • Obedient lies.
  • Shall now Quirinus take his turn,
  • Or quiet Numa, or the state
  • Proud Tarquin held, or Cato stern,
  • By death made great?
  • Ay, Regulus and the Scaurian name,
  • And Paullus, who at Cannae gave
  • His glorious soul, fair record claim,
  • For all were brave.