Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. If you would change Panaetius' works,That costly purchase, and the clanOf Socrates, for shields and dirks,Whom once we thought a saner man?Come, Cnidian, Paphian Venus, come,Thy well-beloved Cyprus spurn,Haste, where for thee in Glycera's homeSweet odours burn.