Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Guardian of hill and woodland, Maid,Who to young wives in childbirth's hourThrice call'd, vouchsafest sovereign aid,O three-form'd power!This pine that shades my cot be thine;Here will I slay, as years come round,A youngling boar, whose tusks designThe side-long wound.