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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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    Horace
    While I had power to bless you,
    Nor any round that neck his arms did fling
    More privileged to caress you,
    Happier was Horace than the Persian king.
    Lydia
    While you for none were pining
    Sorer, nor Lydia after Chloe came,
    Lydia, her peers outshining,
    Might match her own with Ilia's Roman fame.
    Horace
    Now Chloe is my treasure,
    Whose voice, whose touch, can make sweet music flow:
    For her I'd die with pleasure,
    Would Fate but spare the dear survivor so.
    Lydia
    I love my own fond lover,
    Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus:
    For him I'd die twice over,
    Would Fate but spare the sweet survivor thus.
    Horace
    What now, if Love returning
    Should pair us 'neath his brazen yoke once more,
    And, bright-hair'd Chloe spurning,
    Horace to off-cast Lydia ope his door?
    Lydia
    Though he is fairer, milder,
    Than starlight, you lighter than bark of tree,
    Than stormy Hadria wilder,
    With you to live, to die, were bliss for me.

    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 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 9 (general note)

    Cross references from E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus:
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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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