Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. 'Twixt worth and baseness, lapp'd in death,What difference? You shall ne'er be dumb,While strains of mine have voice and breath:The dull neglect of days to comeThose hard-won honours shall not blight:No, Lollius, no: a soul is yours,Clear-sighted, keen, alike uprightWhen fortune smiles, and when she lowers:To greed and rapine still severe,Spurning the gain men find so sweet:A consul, not of one brief year,But oft as on the judgment-seat