Horace+Odes+1.1


 * Horace Odes 1.1**

o et praesidium et dulce decus meum:** //O Maecenas born from royal remote ancestors both my protector and sweet glory//
 * Maecenas atavis edite regibus

collegisse iuvat metaque fervidis** //There are those, whom it pleases to have collected Olympic dust on the racetrack with blazing wheels, and, the turning post// - collegisse - perfect active infinitive
 * sunt, quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum

terrarum dominos evehit ad deos;** //having been avoided, the noble palm raises to the gods, the masters of the world//
 * 5 evitata rotis palmaque nobilis

certat tergeminis tollere honoribus,** //(It pleases) This man, if the crowd of pliant Romans fights to raise with triple honors//
 * hunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium

10 quicquid de Libycis verritur areis.** //(it pleases) him, if he stored in his own storehouse, whatever is swept from the Libyan threshing floors//
 * illum, si proprio condidit horreo,

agros Attalicis condicionibus** //you should never drive out with Attalician terms (money) (the guy) rejoicing to cut the native fields with a hoe//
 * gaudentem patrios findere sarculo

Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare;** //so that he would cut the Myrtoan sea with a Cyprian ship as a frightened sailor//
 * numquam demoveas, ut trabe Cypria

mercator metuens otium et oppidi** //the merchant, fearing the stormy wind wrestling with the waves of Icarus, praises leisure and the countryside of his town//
 * 15 luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum

quassas indocilis pauperiem pati.** //soon he repairs his beaten upon ship untrained to endure poverty//
 * laudat rura sui, mox reficit rates

20 nec partem solido demere de die** //There is (one), who neither rejects old Massic wine nor does he reject to take away a part of the solid day//
 * est, qui nec veteris pocula Massici

stratus, nunc ad aquae lene caput sacrae;** //now stretched with respect to his limbs under the fresh green arbutus tree, now at the gentle source of the sacred water;// - membra - acc. of respect
 * spernit, nunc viridi membra sub arbuto

permixtus sonitus bellaque matribus** //the military camp pleases many and the sound of a straight war trumpet having been mixed with the curved cavalry trumpet and the wars having been cursed by mothers;//
 * multos castra iuvant et lituo tubae

venator tenerae coniugis inmemor,** //The hunter stays under the cold sky forgetting the delicate wife,// - enjambment
 * 25 detestata; manet sub Iove frigido

seu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas.** //whether the deer appeared to the faithful young dogs or whether a Marsian boar shattered the smooth hunting nets.//
 * seu visa est catulis cerva fidelibus,

30 dis miscent superis, me gelidum nemus** //Ivy, the rewards of the learned brows, mixes me with the gods above, the chilly grove//
 * me doctarum hederae praemia frontium

secernunt populo, si neque tibias** //and the light choruses of Nymphs with the Satyrs distinguish me from the people, if Euterpe does not//
 * Nympharumque leves cum Satyris chori

Lesboum refugit tendere barbiton.** //hold back the flutes, and Polyhymnia does not avoid to extend the Lesbian lyre.//
 * Euterpe cohibet, nec Polyhymnia

sublimi feriam sidera vertice.** //But if you put me among the lyric poets I will strike the stars with my lofty head.//
 * 35 quodsi me lyricis vatibus inseres,