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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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    Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors,
    The shield at once and glory of my life!
    There are who joy them in the Olympic strife
    And love the dust they gather in the course;

    The goal by hot wheels shunn'd, the famous prize,
    Exalt them to the gods that rule mankind;
    This joys, if rabbles fickle as the wind
    Through triple grade of honours bid him rise,

    That, if his granary has stored away
    Of Libya's thousand floors the yield entire;
    The man who digs his field as did his sire,
    With honest pride, no Attalus may sway

    By proffer'd wealth to tempt Myrtoan seas,
    The timorous captain of a Cyprian bark.
    The winds that make Icarian billows dark
    The merchant fears, and hugs the rural ease

    Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
    Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
    There is, who thinks no scorn of Massic draught,
    Who robs the daylight of an hour unblamed,

    Now stretch'd beneath the arbute on the sward,
    Now by some gentle river's sacred spring;
    Some love the camp, the clarion's joyous ring,
    And battle, by the mother's soul abhorr'd.

    See, patient waiting in the clear keen air,
    The hunter, thoughtless of his delicate bride,
    Whether the trusty hounds a stag have eyed,
    Or the fierce Marsian boar has burst the snare.

    To me the artist's meed, the ivy wreath
    Is very heaven: me the sweet cool of woods,
    Where Satyrs frolic with the Nymphs, secludes
    From rabble rout, so but Euterpe's breath

    Fail not the flute, nor Polyhymnia fly
    Averse from stringing new the Lesbian lyre.
    O, write my name among that minstrel choir,
    And my proud head shall strike upon the sky!


    There are a total of 6 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Paul Shorey, Commentary on Horace, Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare:
    book 1 (general note)
    book 1, poem 1 (general note)

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    horatius [Horatius]
    lacunaria [Lacunaria, Lacuaria]
    vitrum [Vitrum]
    fig.00353.3 [Metae. (Relief in the British Museum.)]

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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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