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    Q. Horatius Flaccus, Odes (ed. John Conington)

    Editions and translations: Latin (ed. Paul Shorey, Gordon Lang) | English (ed. John Conington)
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    For ease, in wide Aegean caught,
    The sailor prays, when clouds are hiding
    The moon, nor shines of starlight aught
    For seaman's guiding:

    For ease the Mede, with quiver gay:
    For ease rude Thrace, in battle cruel:
    Can purple buy it, Grosphus? Nay,
    Nor gold, nor jewel.

    No pomp, no lictor clears the way
    'Mid rabble-routs of troublous feelings,
    Nor quells the cares that sport and play
    Round gilded ceilings.

    More happy he whose modest board
    His father's well-worn silver brightens;
    No fear, nor lust for sordid hoard,
    His light sleep frightens.

    Why bend our bows of little span?
    Why change our homes for regions under
    Another sun? What exiled man
    From self can sunder?

    Care climbs the bark, and trims the sail,
    Curst fiend! nor troops of horse can 'scape her,
    More swift than stag, more swift than gale
    That drives the vapour.

    Blest in the present, look not forth
    On ills beyond, but soothe each bitter
    With slow, calm smile. No suns on earth
    Unclouded glitter.

    Achilles' light was quench'd at noon;
    A long decay Tithonus minish'd;
    My hours, it may be, yet will run
    When yours are flnish'd.

    For you Sicilian heifers low,
    Bleat countless flocks; for you are neighing
    Proud coursers; Afric purples glow
    For your arraying

    With double dyes; a small domain,
    The soul that breathed in Grecian harping,
    My portion these; and high disdain
    Of ribald carping.


    There are a total of 8 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Paul Shorey, Commentary on Horace, Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare:
    book 2 (general note)
    book 2, poem 16 (general note)
    book 2, poem 16: me fate hath dowered with my Sabine farm, a

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    * [Tomb of Gallic Chief. (Musée de Cluny, Paris.)]
    philyra2 [Philyra]
    * [Salii with Ancilia. (Gruter.)]
    tibullus [Tibullus, Albius]
    fig.01619 [Turibulum. (Pompeian bronze.)]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. John Conington. trans. London. George Bell and Sons. 1882.
    OCLC: 32370960


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