Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Her fall? Can suppliance overbearThe ear of Vesta, turn'd awayFrom chant and prayer?Who comes, commission'd to atoneFor crime like ours? at length appear,A cloud round thy bright shoulders thrown,Apollo seer!Or Venus, laughter-loving dame,