Horace+Odes+3.30


 * Horace Odes 3.30**

//I have completed a monument more lasting than bronze,//
 * Exegi monumentum aere perennius**

//higher than the royal site of the pyramids// - may be transferred epithet - royal
 * regalique situ pyramidum altius,**

//which neither the devouring rain nor the raging (Aquilo) north wind//
 * quod non imber edax, non Aquilo inpotens**

//or the countless succession of years and the flight of times.//
 * possit diruere aut innumerabilis**

//is able to demolish.//
 * 5 annorum series et fuga temporum.**

//I will not fully die and much part of me//
 * non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei**

//will avoid Libitina (goddess of funerals); continuously//
 * vitabit Libitinam: usque ego postera**

//I, fresh from future praise, will rise, as long as the pontifex//
 * crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium**

//will ascend the Capitol with the silent virgins.//
 * scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.**

//I will be said, where violent Aufidus roars,//
 * 10 dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus**

//and Daunus poor of water ruled the rural peoples.//
 * et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium**

//(i), powerful from a humble background (will be said) to be the first,//
 * regnavit populorum, ex humili potens**

//to have led the Aeolian song to Italian meters,//
 * princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos**

Take up pride having been sought with services
 * deduxisse modos. sume superbiam**

and you, Melpomene, willing, surround my hair with Delphic laurel.
 * 15  quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica**


 * lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.**