Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Thus Aeacus has 'scaped the Stygian wave,By grace of poets and their silver tongue,Henceforth to live the happy isles among.No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave,