Odes

Horace

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

  • Slay we thus the cause of crime,
  • If yet we would repent and choose the good:
  • Ours the task to take in time
  • This baleful lust, and crush it in the bud.