Odes

Horace

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

  • Now drink we deep, now featly tread
  • A measure; now before each shrine
  • With Salian feasts the table spread;
  • The time invites us, comrades mine.
  • 'Twas shame to broach, before today,
  • The Caecuban, while Egypt's dame
  • Threaten'd our power in dust to lay
  • And wrap the Capitol in flame,