Odes

Horace

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

  • Indulgence bids the dropsy grow;
  • Who fain would quench the palate's flame
  • Must rescue from the watery foe
  • The pale weak frame.
  • Phraates, throned where Cyrus sate,
  • May count for blest with vulgar herds,
  • But not with Virtue; soon or late
  • From lying words