Odes+1.24

third Asclepiadean
 * Horaces Odes 1.24**

//What restraint or limit for the desire// - sit - deliberative subjunctive
 * Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus**

//of such a dear head (person)? Teach//
 * tam cari capitis? praecipe lugubris**

//mournful songs, Melpomene, to whom the father//
 * cantus, Melpomene, cui liquidam pater**

//has given the melodious voice with the lyre.//
 * vocem cum cithara dedit.**

//Does then permanent sleep press upon Quintilius//
 * ergo Quintilium perpetuus sopor**

//When will Restraint and the sister of justice,//
 * urget? cui Pudor et Iustitiae soror,**

//upright Faith and naked Truth//
 * incorrupta Fides nudaque Veritas**

//find any equal to whom?// - inveniet - future indicative
 * quando ullum inveniet parem?**

//He lamentable to many good men dies//
 * multis ille bonis flebilis occidit,**

//more lamentable to no one, than to you, Vergil.//
 * nulli flebilior, quam tibi, Vergili.**

//You, devoted in vain, alas, you demand Quintilium from the gods//
 * tu, frustra pius, heu, non ita creditum**

//not entrusted to you.//
 * poscis Quintilium deos.**

//What, if you should play the lyre heard by the trees//
 * quid, si Threicio blandius Orpheo**

//more charmingly than Thracian Orpheus,//
 * auditam moderere arboribus fidem,**

//Surely the blood would not return to//
 * num vanae redeat sanguis imagini,**

//the empty form which with his awful wand//
 * quam virga semel horrida**

//Mercury, not gentle in undoing the fates for our prayers,//
 * non lenis precibus fata recludere**

//has round up for his gloomy flock?// - compulerit - perfect subjunctive
 * nigro compulerit Mercurius gregi?**

//It is hard, but it becomes lighter with patience// - add est after durum
 * durum, sed levius fit patientia,**

//to correct whatever which is sacrilege.//
 * quicquid corrigere est nefas.**