Odes

Horace

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

  1. While I had power to bless you,
  2. Nor any round that neck his arms did fling
  3. More privileged to caress you,
  4. Happier was Horace than the Persian king.
Lydia
  1. While you for none were pining
  2. Sorer, nor Lydia after Chloe came,
  3. Lydia, her peers outshining,
  4. Might match her own with Ilia's Roman fame.