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Revision as of 12:10, 21 July 2009
| Book I | The Odes Book II written by Horace |
Book III |
| Translated by A. S. Kline |
- To Pollio, Writing His History of the Civil Wars
- Money
- One Ending
- Loving A Servant Girl
- Be Patient
- Tibur and Tarentum
- A Friend Home From the Wars
- Faithless Barine
- Stop Weeping
- The Golden Mean
- Don’t Ask
- Terentia’s Singing
- Nearly, Tree
- Eheu Fugaces
- Excess
- Contentment
- We’ll Go Together
- Vain Riches
- To Bacchus
- Poetic Immortality
Index of First Lines
You’re handling the Civil Wars, since Metellus. 5
Crispus, silver concealed in the greedy earth. 7
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
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