Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Prometheus, forced, they say, to addTo his prime clay some favourite partFrom every kind, took lion mad,And lodged its gall in man's poor heart.'Twas wrath that laid Thyestes low;'Tis wrath that oft destruction callsOn cities, and invites the foeTo drive his plough o'er ruin'd walls.