Odes

Horace

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

  • He vows revenge for guiltless blood,
  • And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
  • Uxorious flood.
  • Yes, Fame shall tell of civic steel
  • That better Persian lives had spilt,
  • To youths, whose minish'd numbers feel
  • Their parents' guilt.
  • What god shall Rome invoke to stay