Odes

Horace

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

  • An evil age erewhile debased
  • The marriage-bed, the race, the home;
  • Thence rose the flood whose waters waste
  • The nation and the name of Rome.
  • Not such their birth, who stain'd for us
  • The sea with Punic carnage red,
  • Smote Pyrrhus, smote Antiochus,
  • And Hannibal, the Roman's dread.