Odes

Horace

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

  • Not Sparta's queen alone was fired
  • By broider'd robe and braided tress,
  • And all the splendours that attired
  • Her lover's guilty loveliness:
  • Not only Teucer to the field
  • His arrows brought, nor Ilion
  • Beneath a single conqueror reel'd:
  • Not Crete's majestic lord alone,