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 strifeAnd 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 windThrough triple grade of honours bid him rise,