Odes

Horace

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

  • Why with rich gate and pillard range
  • Upbuild new mansions, twice as high,
  • Or why my Sabine vale exchange
  • For more laborious luxury?
  • To suffer hardness with good cheer,
  • In sternest school of warfare bred,
  • Our youth should learn; let steed and spear
  • Make him one day the Parthian's dread;