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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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    Why weep for him whom sweet Favonian airs
    Will waft next spring, Asteria, back to you,
    Rich with Bithynia's wares,
    A lover fond and true,

    Your Gyges? He, detain'd by stormy stress
    At Oricum, about the Goat-star's rise,
    Cold, wakeful, comfortless,
    The long night weeping lies.

    Meantime his lovesick hostess' messenger
    Talks of the flames that waste poor Chloe's heart
    (Flames lit for you, not her!)
    With a besieger's art;

    Shows how a treacherous woman's lying breath
    Once on a time on trustful Proetus won
    To doom to early death
    Too chaste Bellerophon;

    Warns him of Peleus' peril, all but slain
    For virtuous scorn of fair Hippolyta,
    And tells again each tale
    That e'er led heart astray.

    In vain; for deafer than Icarian seas
    He hears, untainted yet. But, lady fair,
    What if Enipeus please
    Your listless eye? beware!

    Though true it be that none with surer seat
    O'er Mars's grassy turf is seen to ride,
    Nor any swims so fleet
    Adown the Tuscan tide,

    Yet keep each evening door and window barr'd;
    Look not abroad when music strikes up shrill,
    And though he call you hard,
    Remain obdurate still.


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    Further comments from Paul Shorey, Commentary on Horace, Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare:
    book 3 (general note)
    book 3: an ode
    book 3: type of the old Roman virtues that won apotheosis for
    book 3: it shall
    book 3: of Regulus, for example, whose story occupies the
    book 3, poem 7 (general note)

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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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