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| |section= Book II | | |section= Book II |
| |notes=Translated by [[A. S. Kline]] | | |notes= |
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| | | === Book II === |
| # [[The Odes/Book II/1|To Pollio, Writing His History of the Civil Wars]] | | # [[The Odes/Book II/1|To Pollio, Writing His History of the Civil Wars]] |
| # [[The Odes/Book II/2|Money]] | | # [[The Odes/Book II/2|Money]] |
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| # [[The Odes/Book II/18|Vain Riches]] | | # [[The Odes/Book II/18|Vain Riches]] |
| # [[The Odes/Book II/19|To Bacchus]] | | # [[The Odes/Book II/19|To Bacchus]] |
| === BkII:XX Poetic Immortality ===
| | # [[The Odes/Book II/20|Poetic Immortality]] |
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| | === Index of First Lines === |
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| | === Metres Used in Book I === |
| A poet of dual form, I won’t be carried
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| through the flowing air on weak or mundane wings,
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| nor will I linger down here on earth,
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| for any length of time: beyond envy,
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| I’ll leave the cities behind. It’s not I, born
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| of poor parents, it’s not I, who hear your voice,
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| beloved Maecenas, I who’ll die,
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| or be encircled by Stygian waters.
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| Even now the rough skin is settling around
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| my ankles, and now above them I’ve become
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| a snow-white swan, and soft feathers are
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| emerging over my arms and shoulders.
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| Soon, a melodious bird, and more famous
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| than Icarus, Daedalus’ son, I’ll visit
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| Bosphorus’ loud shores, Gaetulian
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| Syrtes, and the Hyperborean plains.
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| Colchis will know me, so will the Scythians,
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| who pretend to show no fear of Italian
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| troops, and the Geloni: Spain will learn
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| from me, the expert, and those who drink Rhone.
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| No dirges at my insubstantial funeral,
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| no elegies, and no unseemly grieving:
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| suppress all the clamour, not for me
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| the superfluous honour of a tomb.
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| == Index of First Lines ==
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| You’re handling the Civil Wars, since Metellus. 5
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| Crispus, silver concealed in the greedy earth. 7
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| When things are troublesome, always remember,8
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| Phocian Xanthis, don’t be ashamed of love. 9
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| She’s not ready to bear a yoke on her bowed. 10
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| Septimus, you, who are prepared to visit11
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| O Pompey, often led, with me, by Brutus,12
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| If any punishment ever visited. 13
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| The rain doesn’t fall from the clouds forever14
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| You’ll live more virtuously, my Murena,15
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| Don’t ask what the warlike Spaniards are plotting,16
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| You’d not wish the theme of Numantia’s fierce wars. 17
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| Tree, whoever planted you first it was done. 18
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| Oh how the years fly, Postumus, Postumus,20
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| Not long now and our princely buildings will leave. 21
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| It’s peace the sailor asks of the gods, when he’s. 22
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| Why do you stifle me with your complaining?. 24
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| There’s no ivory, there’s no. 26
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| I saw Bacchus on distant cliffs - believe me,28
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| A poet of dual form, I won’t be carried. 30
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| == Metres Used in Book II. ==
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| The number of syllables most commonly employed in each standard line of the verse is given. This may vary slightly for effect (two beats substituted for three etc.) in a given line.
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| Alcaic Strophe: 11 (5+6) twice, 9, 10
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| used in Odes: 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,14,15,17,19, 20
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| Sapphic and Adonic: 11(5+6) three times, 5
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| Odes: 2,4,6,8,10,16
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| First Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) all lines
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| Odes: None in Book II
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| Second Asclepiadean: 8, 12 (6+6), alternating
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| Third Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) three times, 8
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| Ode: 12
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| Fourth Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) twice, 7, 8
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| Fifth Asclepiadean: 16 (6+4+6) all lines
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| Alcmanic Strophe: 17 (7+10) or less, 11 or less, alternating
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| First Archilochian: 17 (7+10) or less, 7 alternating
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| Fourth Archilochian Strophe: 18 (7+11) or less, 11 (5+6) alternating
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| Second Sapphic Strophe: 7, 15 (5+10) alternating
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| Trochaic Strophe: 7,11 alternating
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| Ode: 18
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| Ionic a Minore: 16 twice, 8
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