Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Who from crush'd Afric took away—a name,Than rude Calabria's tributary lays.Let silence hide the good your hand has wrought,Farewell, reward! Had blank oblivion's powerDimm'd the bright deeds of Romulus, at this hour,Despite his sire and mother, he were nought.Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,By grace of poets and their silver tongue,