Odes

Horace

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

  • That, if his granary has stored away
  • Of Libya's thousand floors the yield entire;
  • The man who digs his field as did his sire,
  • With honest pride, no Attalus may sway
  • By proffer'd wealth to tempt Myrtoan seas,
  • The timorous captain of a Cyprian bark.
  • The winds that make Icarian billows dark
  • The merchant fears, and hugs the rural ease