Odes

Horace

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

  • The weary war where fierce Numantia bled,
  • Fell Hannibal, the swoln Sicilian main
  • Purpled with Punic blood—not mine to wed
  • These to the lyre's soft strain,
  • Nor cruel Lapithae, nor, mad with wine,
  • Centaurs, nor, by Herculean arm o'ercome,
  • The earth-born youth, whose terrors dimm'd the shine
  • Of the resplendent dome