Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Strength, mindless, falls by its own weight;Strength, mix'd with mind, is made more strongBy the just gods, who surely hateThe strength whose thoughts are set on wrong.Let hundred-handed Gyas bearHis witness, and Orion knownTempter of Dian, chaste and fair,By Dian's maiden dart o'erthrown.Hurl'd on the monstrous shapes she bred,Earth groans, and mourns her children thrustTo Orcus; Aetna's weight of leadKeeps down the fire that breaks its crust;