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| |author=Horace | | |author=Horace |
| |title=[[The Odes]] | | |title=[[The Odes]] |
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| |previous=[[The Odes/Book III|Book III]] | | |previous=[[The Odes/Book III|Book III]] |
| |section= Book IV | | |section= Book IV |
| |notes=Translated by [[A. S. Kline]] | | |notes= |
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| | | === Book IV === |
| #[[The Odes/Book IV/1|Venus, be Merciful]] | | #[[The Odes/Book IV/1|Venus, be Merciful]] |
| #[[The Odes/Book IV/2|Augustus’s Return]] | | #[[The Odes/Book IV/2|Augustus’s Return]] |
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| #[[The Odes/Book IV/12|Spring]] | | #[[The Odes/Book IV/12|Spring]] |
| #[[The Odes/Book IV/13|You too, Lyce]] | | #[[The Odes/Book IV/13|You too, Lyce]] |
| #[[The Odes/Book IV/14|Drusus and Tiberius === | | #[[The Odes/Book IV/14|Drusus and Tiberius]] |
| === BkIV:XV To Augustus ===
| | #[[The Odes/Book IV/15|To Augustus]] |
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| Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing
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| of war and conquered cities, lest I unfurled
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| my tiny sail on Tyrrhenian
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| seas. Caesar, this age has restored rich crops
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| to the fields, and brought back the standards, at last,
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| to Jupiter, those that we’ve now recovered
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| from insolent Parthian pillars,
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| and closed the gates of Romulus’ temple,
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| freed at last from all war, and tightened the rein
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| on lawlessness, straying beyond just limits,
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| and has driven out crime, and summoned
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| the ancient arts again, by which the name
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| of Rome and Italian power grew great,
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| and the fame and majesty of our empire,
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| were spread from the sun’s lair in the west,
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| to the regions where it rises at dawn.
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| With Caesar protecting the state, no civil
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| disturbance will banish the peace, no violence,
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| no anger that forges swords, and makes
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| mutual enemies of wretched towns.
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| The tribes who drink from the depths of the Danube, | |
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| will not break the Julian law, the Getae,
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| nor Seres, nor faithless Persians,
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| nor those who are born by the Don’s wide stream.
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| On working days, and the same on holy days,
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| among laughter-loving Bacchus’ gifts to us,
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| with our wives and our children we’ll pray,
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| at first, to the gods, in the rites laid down,
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| then, in the manner of our fathers, bravely,
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| in verse, that’s accompanied by Lydian flutes,
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| we’ll sing past leaders, we’ll sing of Troy,
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| Anchises, and the people of Venus.
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| == Index of First Lines ==
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| Venus now you’ve returned again. 5
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| Iulus, whoever tries to rival Pindar,7
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| Melpomene, Muse, one whom you. 9
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| Like the winged agent of the bright lightning-bolt,10
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| Son of the blessed gods, and greatest defender13
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| God, whom Niobe’s children encountered, O.. 15
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| The snow has vanished, already the grass returns to the fields,17
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| I’d give bowls, generously, and pleasing bronzes,18
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| Don’t think that the words I speak to accompany. 19
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| O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts,21
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| I’ve a jar of Alban wine over nine years. 22
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| Now Spring’s companions, the Thracian northerlies,24
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| Lyce, the gods have heard my prayers, the gods have. 25
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| What care the Citizens and the Senators. 26
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| Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing. 28
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| == Metres Used in Book IV. ==
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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: 4,9,14,15
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| Sapphic and Adonic: 11(5+6) three times, 5
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| Odes: 2,6,11
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| First Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) all lines
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| Ode: 8
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| Second Asclepiadean: 8, 12 (6+6), alternating
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| Odes: 1,3
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| Third Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) three times, 8
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| Odes 5,12
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| Fourth Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) twice, 7, 8
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| Ode:13
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| Fifth Asclepiadean: 16 (6+4+6) all lines
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| Ode: 10
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| Alcmanic Strophe: 17 (7+10) or less, 11 or less, alternating
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| Odes: None in Book IV
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| First Archilochian: 17 (7+10) or less, 7 alternating
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| Ode: 7
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| Fourth Archilochian Strophe: 18 (7+11) or less, 11 (5+6) alternating
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| Odes: None in Book IV
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| Second Sapphic Strophe: 7, 15 (5+10) alternating
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| Odes: None in Book IV
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| Trochaic Strophe: 7,11 alternating
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| Odes: None in Book IV
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| Ionic a Minore: 16 twice, 8
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| Ode: None in Book IV
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| [[Category:Poetry]] | | [[Category:Poetry]] |
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