Odes

Horace

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

  • Who laves in clear Castalian flood
  • His locks, and loves the leafy growth
  • Of Lycia next his native wood,
  • The Delian and the Pataran both.
  • Strength, mindless, falls by its own weight;
  • Strength, mix'd with mind, is made more strong
  • By the just gods, who surely hate
  • The strength whose thoughts are set on wrong.
  • Let hundred-handed Gyas bear
  • His witness, and Orion known
  • Tempter of Dian, chaste and fair,
  • By Dian's maiden dart o'erthrown.