Odes

Horace

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

  • Should Troy revive to hateful life,
  • Her star again should set in gore,
  • While I, Jove's sister and his wife,
  • To victory led my host once more.
  • Though Phoebus thrice in brazen mail
  • Should case her towers, they thrice should fall,
  • Storm'd by my Greeks: thrice wives should wail
  • Husband and son, themselves in thrall.”—