Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Not only Teucer to the fieldHis arrows brought, nor Ilion Beneath a single conqueror reel'd:Not Crete's majestic lord alone,Or Sthenelus, earn'd the Muses' crown:Not Hector first for child and wife,Or brave Deiphobus, laid downThe burden of a manly life.Before Atrides men were brave:But ah! oblivion, dark and long,Has lock'd them in a tearless grave,For lack of consecrating song.