Odes

Horace

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

  • The wood, the tiger, at thy call
  • Have follow'd: thou caust rivers stay:
  • The monstrous guard of Pluto's hall
  • To thee gave way,
  • Grim Cerberus, round whose Gorgon head
  • A hundred snakes are hissing death,
  • Whose triple jaws black venom shed,
  • And sickening breath.