Odes

Horace

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

  • The sire has sent in vengeance down:
  • His bolts, at his own temple cast,
  • Appall'd the town,
  • Appall'd the lands, lest Pyrrha's time
  • Return, with all its monstrous sights,
  • When Proteus led his flocks to climb
  • The flatten'd heights,
  • When fish were in the elm-tops caught,