Odes

Horace

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

  • On Priam's ill-starr'd merriment
  • In bower and hail:
  • His ruthless arm in broad bare day
  • The infant from the breast had torn,
  • Nay, given to flame, ah, well a way!
  • The babe unborn:
  • But, won by Venus' voice and thine,
  • Relenting Jove Aeneas will'd