Horatian Echoes; Translations of the Odes of Horace - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...valley seek, Or the bright atmosphere of Baiae's shore. Friend to your founts and choirs, and you to me! For me was stemmed Philippi's adverse tide, The accursed tree's fell blow was turned aside, And my bark saved on the Sicilian sea. While you are with me, as a mariner I will defy the stormy Bosphorus' wrath, Nor shall the many perils of the path My steps from Syria's burning sands deter: Inviolate, I will see the Scythian river; Britons, with strangers famed for savage deeds; Concanians revelling in the blood of steeds; And the Gelonian with his well-filled quiver. What pleasures you to lofty Caesar yield, When, his tired cohorts cantoned in the towns, Repose in your Pierian grotto crowns His toils and triumphs in the battlefield! You gentle counsels give, and in the gift Rejoice. We know the impious revolt Of the huge Titans, and the thunderbolt That on the embattled host fell sure and swift; Hurled by the hand of Him whom all obey--Who o'er the stable earth and stormy sea, And cities, and the realms of misery, Rules gods and mortals with impartial sway. When the young giants in rebellion strove, In brute force trusting, and with fury wild, On Pelion's height, leaf-clad Olympus piled, Great was the horror it inspired in Jove. But what could threats and violence avail, When Rhaetus, Mimas, all the savage crew, Enceladus, who trees uprooted threw, Frightful Porphyrion and Typhoeus quail--Rushing against Minerva's sounding shield; Here Vulcan stood, impatient for the fray, The matron Juno here, while Patara And Delos sent Apollo to the field: Whose bow is on his shoulders ever laid, Who bathes his flowing locks in crystal dew Of Castaly, who Lycia's thickets haunts,--and who Finds home and altar in his native glade. Force lacking wisdom falls by its own we...
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- ISBN 10 1232378046
- ISBN 13 9781232378044
- BindingPaperback
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