Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. 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,That, if his granary has stored away