Odes

Horace

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

  • Thus Daunia's ancient river fares,
  • Proud Aufidus, with bull-like horn,
  • When swoln with choler he prepares
  • A deluge for the fields of corn.
  • So Claudius charged and overthrew
  • The grim barbarian's mail-clad host,
  • The foremost and the hindmost slew,
  • And conquer'd all, and nothing lost.
  • The force, the forethought, were thine own,
  • Thine own the gods. The selfsame day
  • When, port and palace open thrown,
  • Low at thy footstool Egypt lay,