Odes

Horace

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

Of battles fought I fain had told,

And conquer'd towns, when Phoebus smote

His harp-string: “Sooth, 'twere over-bold.

To tempt wide seas in that frail boat.”