This is an archive copy of wikilivres.ca as of 18 February 2017 (from the WikiTeam dump). The original site is closed.
The Odes/Book IV: Difference between revisions
imported>Zephyrus o |
imported>Zephyrus o |
||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
|notes=Translated by [[A. S. Kline]] | |notes=Translated by [[A. S. Kline]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
__TOC__ | __TOC__ | ||
=== Table of Contents === | |||
=== | |||
<div class="verse"> | <div class="verse"> | ||
| Line 54: | Line 50: | ||
#[[The Odes/Book IV/14|What care the Citizens and the Senators.]] | #[[The Odes/Book IV/14|What care the Citizens and the Senators.]] | ||
#[[The Odes/Book IV/15|Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing]] | #[[The Odes/Book IV/15|Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing]] | ||
=== Metres Used in Book IV. === | === 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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 10:08, 13 September 2009
| Book III | The Odes Book IV written by Horace |
| Translated by A. S. Kline |
Table of Contents
- Venus, be Merciful
- Augustus’s Return
- To The Muse
- Drusus and the Claudians
- To Augustus
- To Apollo
- Diffugere Nives
- Poetry
- Lollius
- Age
- Maecenas’ Birthday
- Spring
- You too, Lyce
- Drusus and Tiberius
- To Augustus
Index of First Lines
- Venus now you’ve returned again
- Iulus, whoever tries to rival Pindar,
- Melpomene, Muse, one whom you.
- Like the winged agent of the bright lightning-bolt,
- Son of the blessed gods, and greatest defender
- God, whom Niobe’s children encountered, O..
- The snow has vanished, already the grass returns to the fields,
- I’d give bowls, generously, and pleasing bronzes,
- Don’t think that the words I speak to accompany
- O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts,
- I’ve a jar of Alban wine over nine years.
- Now Spring’s companions, the Thracian northerlies
- Lyce, the gods have heard my prayers, the gods have.
- What care the Citizens and the Senators.
- Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing
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
Odes: 1,3
Third Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) three times, 8
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