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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]]
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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]]
 
 
Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing
 
of war and conquered cities, lest I unfurled
 
my tiny sail on Tyrrhenian
 
seas. Caesar, this age has restored rich crops
 
 
to the fields, and brought back the standards, at last,
 
to Jupiter, those that we’ve now recovered
 
from insolent Parthian pillars,
 
and closed the gates of Romulus’ temple,
 
 
freed at last from all war, and tightened the rein
 
on lawlessness, straying beyond just limits,
 
and has driven out crime, and summoned
 
the ancient arts again, by which the name
 
 
of Rome and Italian power grew great,
 
and the fame and majesty of our empire,
 
were spread from the sun’s lair in the west,
 
to the regions where it rises at dawn.
 
 
With Caesar protecting the state, no civil
 
disturbance will banish the peace, no violence,
 
no anger that forges swords, and makes
 
mutual enemies of wretched towns.
 
 
The tribes who drink from the depths of the Danube,
 
will not break the Julian law, the Getae,
 
nor Seres, nor faithless Persians,
 
nor those who are born by the Don’s wide stream.
 
 
On working days, and the same on holy days,
 
among laughter-loving Bacchus’ gifts to us,
 
with our wives and our children we’ll pray,
 
at first, to the gods, in the rites laid down,
 
 
then, in the manner of our fathers, bravely,
 
in verse, that’s accompanied by Lydian flutes,
 
we’ll sing past leaders, we’ll sing of Troy,
 
Anchises, and the people of Venus.
 
 
 
 
== Index of First Lines ==
 
 
 
Venus now you’ve returned again. 5
 
Iulus, whoever tries to rival Pindar,7
 
Melpomene, Muse, one whom you. 9
 
Like the winged agent of the bright lightning-bolt,10
 
Son of the blessed gods, and greatest defender13
 
God, whom Niobe’s children encountered, O.. 15
 
The snow has vanished, already the grass returns to the fields,17
 
I’d give bowls, generously, and pleasing bronzes,18
 
Don’t think that the words I speak to accompany. 19
 
O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts,21
 
I’ve a jar of Alban wine over nine years. 22
 
Now Spring’s companions, the Thracian northerlies,24
 
Lyce, the gods have heard my prayers, the gods have. 25
 
What care the Citizens and the Senators. 26
 
Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing. 28
 
 
 
== Metres Used in Book IV. ==
 
 
 
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: 4,9,14,15
 
 
Sapphic and Adonic: 11(5+6) three times, 5
 
Odes: 2,6,11
 
 
First Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) all lines


Ode: 8


   
   


Second Asclepiadean: 8, 12 (6+6), alternating
=== Index of First Lines ===


Odes: 1,3




Third Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) three times, 8
=== Metres Used in Book IV. ===


Odes 5,12


Fourth Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) twice, 7, 8
Ode:13
Fifth Asclepiadean: 16 (6+4+6) all lines
Ode: 10
Alcmanic Strophe: 17 (7+10) or less, 11 or less, alternating
Odes: None in Book IV
First Archilochian: 17 (7+10) or less, 7 alternating
Ode: 7
Fourth Archilochian Strophe: 18 (7+11) or less, 11 (5+6) alternating
Odes: None in Book IV
Second Sapphic Strophe: 7, 15 (5+10) alternating
Odes: None in Book IV
Trochaic Strophe: 7,11 alternating
Odes: None in Book IV
Ionic a Minore: 16 twice, 8
Ode: None in Book IV
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