Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. The soldier fears the mask'd retreatOf Parthia; Parthia dreads the thrallOf Rome; but Death with noiseless feetHas stolen and will steal on all.How near dark Pluto's court I stood,And Aeacus' judicial throne,The blest seclusion of the good,And Sappho, with sweet lyric moan