Odes

Horace

Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882.

  • Not though three hundred bullocks flame
  • Each year, to soothe the tearless king
  • Who holds huge Geryon's triple frame
  • And Tityos in his watery ring,
  • That circling flood, which all must stem,
  • Who eat the fruits that Nature yields,
  • Wearers of haughtiest diadem,
  • Or humblest tillers of the fields.