Odes

Horace

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

Hush'd is the war our strife made long:

I welcome now, my hatred o'er,

A grandson in the child of wrong,

Him whom the Trojan priestess bore.

Receive him, Mars! the gates of flame

May open: let him taste forgiven

The nectar, and enrol his name

Among the peaceful ranks of Heaven.

Let the wide waters sever still

Ilium and Rome, the exiled race

May reign and prosper where they will:

So but in Paris' burial-place