Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. The sprinkled salt, the votive meal,As soon their favour will regain,Let but the hand be pure and leal,As all the pomp of heifers slain.Though your buried wealth surpassThe unsunn'd gold of Ind or Araby,Though with many a ponderous massYou crowd the Tuscan and Apulian sea,