Odes

Horace

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

  • Nay, given to flame, ah, well a way!
  • The babe unborn:
  • But, won by Venus' voice and thine,
  • Relenting Jove Aeneas will'd
  • With other omens more benign
  • New walls to build.
  • Sweet tuner of the Grecian lyre,
  • Whose locks are laved in Xanthus' dews,