Horace+Odes+3.1

__**Horace Odes 3.1**__ Alcaic

//I hate and spurn the profane crowd.//
 * Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.**

//Be silent: I, the priest of the muses, sing the songs//
 * favete linguis: carmina non prius**

//not having been heard before//
 * audita Musarum sacerdos**

//to maidens and boys.//
 * virginibus puerisque canto.**

//The power of the kings to be feared is over one's own flock,//
 * 5 regum timendorum in proprios greges,**

//the power of Jove,//
 * reges in ipsos imperium est Iovis,**

//famous for his triumph over the giants,//
 * clari Giganteo triumpho,**

//moving everything with his eyebrow, (is) over the kings themselves.//
 * cuncta supercilio moventis.**

//it is such that the man arranges//
 * est, ut viro vir latius ordinet**

//his trees with wider furrows than (another) man, this candidate/seeker//
 * 10 arbusta sulcis, hic generosior**

//descends more nobly into the field,//
 * descendat in campum petitor,**

//this man contends better with respect to character and fame,//
 * moribus hic meliorque fama**

//the crowd of clients to(of) that guy// - dat. of possession
 * contendat, illi turba clientium**

//is bigger: Necessity chooses the distinguished// - substantive clause of result - subjunctive - its nouny
 * sit maior: aequa lege Necessitas**

//and the lowest with equal law.//
 * 15 sortitur insignis et imos,**

//The spacious urn moves every name.//
 * omne capax movet urna nomen.**

//For whom the drawn sword hangs over the impious//
 * destrictus ensis cui super impia**

//neck, Sicilian feasts will not develop//
 * cervice pendet, non Siculae dapes**

//a sweet taste,//
 * dulcem elaborabunt saporem,**

//the songs of birds and the lyre//
 * 20 non avium citaraeque cantus**

//will not bring back sleep: gentle sleep//
 * somnum reducent: somnus agrestium**

//does not scorn the humble homes of rustic// - synchesis
 * lenis virorum non humilis domos**

//men and the shady bank,//
 * fastidit umbrosamque ripam,**

//nor the Tempe valley stirred by the west winds.//
 * non Zephyris agitata Tempe.**

//The turbulent sea does not disturb the one desiring//
 * 25 desiderantem quod satis est neque**

//what is enough,//
 * tumultuosum sollicitat mare,**

//nor does the savage attack of setting Arcturus//
 * nec saevus Arcturi cadentis**

//or of rising Haedus,//
 * impetus aut orientis Haedi,**

//nor do the vineyards beaten with hail//
 * non verberatae grandine vineae**

//and the false estate, with the tree now blaming the waters,//
 * 30 fundusque mendax, arbore nunc aquas**

//now (blaming) the stars burning the fields//
 * culpante, nunc torrentia agros**

//now (blaming) the unfavorable winters.//
 * sidera, nunc hiemes iniquas.**

//The fish perceive the waters having been narrowed//
 * contracta pisces aequora sentiunt**

//by means of the massive structures having been piled on high. Hither the assiduous contractor//
 * iactis in altum molibus: huc frequens**

//sinks small stones//
 * 35 caementa demittit redemptor**

//with slaves and the lord disdainful of the land (does this, too),//
 * cum famulis dominusque terrae**

//but Fear and Threats//
 * fastidiosus, sed Timor et Minae**

//climb to the same place where the master (climbs) and//
 * scandunt eodem, quo dominus, neque**

//Gloomy Care does not depart with the bronzed trireme and//
 * decedit aerata triremi et**

//sit behind the horseman.//
 * 40 post equitem sedet atra Cura.**

//But if neither the Phrygian stone//
 * quodsi dolentem nec Phrygius lapis,**

//nor the use of purples clearer than a star// - sidere - abl. of comparison
 * nec purpurarum sidere clarior**

//soothes the suffering one, nor does Falernian//
 * delenit usus, nec Falerna**

//wine and Persian aromatic plant (btw)//
 * vitis Achaemeniumque costum,**

//why should I build an atrium sublime with doorposts to be envied and in the new//
 * 45 cur invidendis postibus et novo**

//style?//
 * sublime ritu moliar atrium?**

//Why should I exchange the Sabine valley for//
 * cur valle permutem Sabina**

//rather toilsome riches?//
 * divitias operosiores?**