Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Should angry Fate those wishes foil,Then let me seek Galesus, sweetTo skin-clad sheep, and that rich soil,The Spartan's seat.O, what can match the green recess,Whose honey not to Hybla yields,Whose olives vie with those that blessVenafrum's fields?