Odes

Horace

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

  • The dangers of the hour! no thought
  • We give them; Punic seaman's fear
  • Is all of Bosporus, nor aught
  • Reeks he of pitfalls otherwhere;
  • The soldier fears the mask'd retreat
  • Of Parthia; Parthia dreads the thrall
  • Of Rome; but Death with noiseless feet
  • Has stolen and will steal on all.