Odes

Horace

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

  • What the wines of Chios cost,
  • Who with due heat our water can allay,
  • What the hour, and who the host
  • To give us house-room,—this you will not say
  • Ho, there! wine to moonrise, wine
  • To midnight, wine to our new augur too!
  • Nine to three or three to nine,
  • As each man pleases, makes proportion true.