Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. What god shall Rome invoke to stayHer fall? Can suppliance overbearThe ear of Vesta, turn'd awayFrom chant and prayer?Who comes, commission'd to atoneFor crime like ours? at length appear,A cloud round thy bright shoulders thrown,Apollo seer!Or Venus, laughter-loving dame,Round whom gay Loves and Pleasures fly;Or thou, if slighted sons may claimA parent's eye,