Horace+Odes+2.14

Alcaic
 * Horace Odes II.14**

//Alas Postumus,// //Postumes, the elusive years//
 * Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume**

//are passed, and devotion will not bring//
 * labuntur anni, nec pietas moram**

//delay to wrinkles and pressing old age// - synchesis - instanti senectae...indomitaeque morti
 * rugis et instanti senectae**

//and unconquerable death,//
 * adferet indomitaeque morti,**

//Not, however many days go by,//
 * non, si trecenis, quotquot eunt dies,**

//**amice, places inlacrimabilem**// //friend, if you should placate pitiless Pluto// - future less vivid

//with three hundred bulls, who restrains// - Plutona- accusative (Greek thing)
 * Plutona tauris, qui ter amplum**

//thrice large Geryon and Tityon//
 * Geryonem Tityonque tristi**

//with sad waters// //to be sailed across by all of us surely//
 * conpescit unda, scilicet omnibus,**

//whichever of us feed on// //gift of the earth//
 * quicumque terrae munere vescimur,**

//whether kings//
 * enaviganda, sive reges,**

//or poor farmers we will be.// - hyperbaton
 * sive inopes erimus coloni.**

//We, in vain, will be without cruel war,// - metonymy
 * frustra cruento Marte carebimus**

//And [we will lack in vain] the broken waves of the rough Adriatic sea,//
 * fractisque rauci fluctibus Hadriae,**

//In vain, we will fear the south wind//
 * frustra per autumnos nocentem**

//harming our bodies through autumns//
 * corporibus metuemus Austrum:**

//The gloomy Cocytus wandering// - visendus- implied est (gerundive of obligation)
 * visendus ater flumine languido**

//with languid water must be looked upon and//
 * Cocytos errans et Danai genus**

//**infame damnatusque longi**// //the infamous race of Danaus (must be looked upon) and//

//Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, damned to long labour.//
 * Sisyphus Aeolides laboris.**

//The land and the home and the pleasing wife must be left behind//
 * linquenda tellus et domus et placens**

//and not any of these trees, which you cultivate,//
 * uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum**

//except the hateful cypress//**,**
 * te praeter invisas cupressos**

//will follow you, the brief master.//
 * ulla brevem dominum sequetur,**

//The heir, more worthy, will consume the Caecuban wines//
 * absumet heres Caecuba dignior**

//having been saved by means of a hundred keys//
 * servata centum clavibus et mero**

//and he will stain the floor with the proud, unmixed wine**,**//
 * tinguet pavimentum superbo,**

//better than the dinners of high priests.//
 * pontificum potiore cenis.**