Odes

Horace

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

  • When Juno spoke with Heaven's assent:
  • “O Ilium, Ilium, wretched town!
  • The judge accurst, incontinent,
  • And stranger dame have dragg'd thee down.
  • Pallas and I, since Priam's sire
  • Denied the gods his pledged reward,
  • Had doom'd them all to sword and fire,
  • The people and their perjured lord.
  • No more the adulterous guest can charm
  • The Spartan queen: the house forsworn
  • No more repels by Hector's arm
  • My warriors, baffled and outworn: