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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]]  
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# [[The Odes/Book II/19|To Bacchus]]
# [[The Odes/Book II/19|To Bacchus]]
# [[The Odes/Book II/20|Poetic Immortality]]
# [[The Odes/Book II/20|Poetic Immortality]]
== Index of First Lines ==


=== Index of First Lines ===


=== Metres Used in Book I ===


You’re handling the Civil Wars, since Metellus. 5


Crispus, silver concealed in the greedy earth. 7
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When things are troublesome, always remember,8
 
Phocian Xanthis, don’t be ashamed of love. 9
 
She’s not ready to bear a yoke on her bowed. 10
 
Septimus, you, who are prepared to visit11
 
O Pompey, often led, with me, by Brutus,12
 
If any punishment ever visited. 13
 
The rain doesn’t fall from the clouds forever14
 
You’ll live more virtuously, my Murena,15
 
Don’t ask what the warlike Spaniards are plotting,16
 
You’d not wish the theme of Numantia’s fierce wars. 17
 
Tree, whoever planted you first it was done. 18
 
Oh how the years fly, Postumus, Postumus,20
 
Not long now and our princely buildings will leave. 21
 
It’s peace the sailor asks of the gods, when he’s. 22
 
Why do you stifle me with your complaining?. 24
 
There’s no ivory, there’s no. 26
 
I saw Bacchus on distant cliffs - believe me,28
 
A poet of dual form, I won’t be carried. 30
 
 
 
== Metres Used in Book II. ==
 
 
 
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.
 
 
Alcaic Strophe: 11 (5+6) twice, 9, 10   
 
used in Odes: 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,14,15,17,19, 20
 
 
Sapphic and Adonic: 11(5+6) three times, 5
 
Odes: 2,4,6,8,10,16
 
 
First Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) all lines


Odes: None in Book II
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Second Asclepiadean: 8, 12 (6+6), alternating
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
 
Third Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) three times, 8
 
Ode: 12
 
 
Fourth Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) twice, 7, 8
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
 
Fifth Asclepiadean: 16 (6+4+6) all lines
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
 
Alcmanic Strophe: 17 (7+10) or less, 11 or less, alternating
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
 
First Archilochian: 17 (7+10) or less, 7 alternating
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
 
Fourth Archilochian Strophe: 18 (7+11) or less, 11 (5+6) alternating
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
 
Second Sapphic Strophe: 7, 15 (5+10) alternating
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
 
Trochaic Strophe: 7,11 alternating
 
Ode: 18
 
 
Ionic a Minore: 16 twice, 8
 
Odes: None in Book II
 
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Latest revision as of 09:41, 27 January 2013

Book I The Odes
Book II
written by Horace 		Book III



Book II

  1. To Pollio, Writing His History of the Civil Wars
  2. Money
  3. One Ending
  4. Loving A Servant Girl
  5. Be Patient
  6. Tibur and Tarentum
  7. A Friend Home From the Wars
  8. Faithless Barine
  9. Stop Weeping
  10. The Golden Mean
  11. Don’t Ask
  12. Terentia’s Singing
  13. Nearly, Tree
  14. Eheu Fugaces
  15. Excess
  16. Contentment
  17. We’ll Go Together
  18. Vain Riches
  19. To Bacchus
  20. Poetic Immortality

Index of First Lines

Metres Used in Book I

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