Odes

Horace

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

Then to his cups again, where, feasting gay,

He hails his god in thee.

A household power, adored with prayers and wine,

Thou reign'st auspicious o'er his hour of ease:

Thus grateful Greece her Castor made divine,

And her great Hercules.

Ah! be it thine long holydays to give

To thy Hesperia! thus, dear chief, we pray

At sober sunrise; thus at mellow eve,

When ocean hides the day.

Thou who didst make thy vengeful might

To Niobe and Tityos known,