Odes

Horace

Horace, Odes and Epodes. Shorey, Paul,editor; Laing, Gordon Jennings, joint editor. Chicago: B.H. Sanborn and Company, 1919.

  • “Donec gratus eram tibi
  • nec quisquam potior bracchia candidae
  • cervici iuvenis dabat,
  • Persarum vigui rege beatior.”
  • “donec non alia magis
  • arsisti neque erat Lydia post Chloen,
  • multi Lydia nominis,
  • Romana vigui clarior Ilia.”
  • “me nunc Thressa Chloe regit,
  • dulcis docta modos et citharae sciens,
  • pro qua non metuam mori,
  • si parcent animae fata superstiti”
  • “me torret face mutua
  • Thurini Calais filius Ornyti,
  • pro quo bis patiar mori,
  • si parcent puero fata superstiti.”
  • “quid si prisca redit Venus
  • diductosque iugo cogit aeneo?
  • si flava excutitur Chloe
  • reiectaeque patet ianua Lydiae?”