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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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    Enough of snow and hail at last
    The sire has sent in vengeance down:
    His bolts, at his own temple cast,
    Appall'd the town,

    Appall'd the lands, lest Pyrrha's time
    Return, with all its monstrous sights,
    When Proteus led his flocks to climb
    The flatten'd heights,

    When fish were in the elm-tops caught,
    Where once the stock-dove wont to bide,
    And does were floating, all distraught,
    Adown the tide.

    Old Tiber, hurl'd in tumult back
    From mingling with the Etruscan main,
    Has threaten'd Numa's court with wrack
    And Vesta's fane.

    Roused by his Ilia's plaintive woes,
    He vows revenge for guiltless blood,
    And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
    Uxorious flood.

    Yes, Fame shall tell of civic steel
    That better Persian lives had spilt,
    To youths, whose minish'd numbers feel
    Their parents' guilt.

    What god shall Rome invoke to stay
    Her fall? Can suppliance overbear
    The ear of Vesta, turn'd away
    From chant and prayer?

    Who comes, commission'd to atone
    For crime like ours? at length appear,
    A cloud round thy bright shoulders thrown,
    Apollo seer!

    Or Venus, laughter-loving dame,
    Round whom gay Loves and Pleasures fly;
    Or thou, if slighted sons may claim
    A parent's eye,

    O weary with thy long, long game,
    Who lov'st fierce shouts and helmets bright,
    And Moorish warrior's glance of flame
    Or e'er he smite!

    Or Maia's son, if now awhile
    In youthful guise we see thee here,
    Caesar's avenger--such the style
    Thou deign'st to bear;

    Late be thy journey home, and long
    Thy sojourn with Rome's family;
    Nor let thy wrath at our great wrong
    Lend wings to fly.

    Here take our homage, Chief and Sire;
    Here wreathe with bay thy conquering brow,
    And bid the prancing Mede retire,
    Our Caesar thou!


    There are a total of 5 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 2 (general note)

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    horatius [Horatius]
    lacunaria [Lacunaria, Lacuaria]
    vitrum [Vitrum]

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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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