Odes

Horace

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

  • Clear-sighted, keen, alike upright
  • When fortune smiles, and when she lowers:
  • To greed and rapine still severe,
  • Spurning the gain men find so sweet: