Odes

Horace

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

  • Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors,
  • The shield at once and glory of my life!
  • There are who joy them in the Olympic strife
  • And love the dust they gather in the course;
  • The goal by hot wheels shunn'd, the famous prize,
  • Exalt them to the gods that rule mankind;
  • This joys, if rabbles fickle as the wind
  • Through triple grade of honours bid him rise,