Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. And gave her chase from Italy,As after doves fierce falcons speed,As hunters 'neath Haemonia's skyChase the tired hare, so might he leadThe fiend enchain'd; she sought to dieMore nobly, nor with woman's dreadQuail'd at the steel, nor timorouslyIn her fleet ships to covert fled.