Odes

Horace

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

  • No more the adulterous guest can charm
  • The Spartan queen: the house forsworn
  • No more repels by Hector's arm
  • My warriors, baffled and outworn:
  • Hush'd is the war our strife made long:
  • I welcome now, my hatred o'er,
  • A grandson in the child of wrong,
  • Him whom the Trojan priestess bore.
  • Receive him, Mars! the gates of flame
  • May open: let him taste forgiven
  • The nectar, and enrol his name
  • Among the peaceful ranks of Heaven.