Odes

Horace

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

  • 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,
  • Where once the stock-dove wont to bide,
  • And does were floating, all distraught,
  • Adown the tide.
  • Old Tiber, hurl'd in tumult back
  • From mingling with the Etruscan main,
  • Has threaten'd Numa's court with wrack
  • And Vesta's fane.