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 sky
  • Chase the tired hare, so might he lead
  • The fiend enchain'd; she sought to die
  • More nobly, nor with woman's dread
  • Quail'd at the steel, nor timorously
  • In her fleet ships to covert fled.