Translation from francese and smith 2014 boys should grow tough in harsh military service, and learn to treat its strict privations like a friend. Horaces ode, written to grosphus who was a wealthy sicilian rancher, reflects his tendency towards epicurean philosophy as he advocates for a simple life without cares or anxieties. Summary the odes of horace are the lyric masterpieces of the golden age of latin literature. Each word is fully parsed in the notes at the bottom of each page the lines of the odes are numbered sequentially beginning with ode 1, book i through ode 20, book ii the sequential numbering is a unique aid to finding the english translation of the line of latin in the translation section at the back of the book these aids should be. Do you not see that your side is stripped of oars, and your mast is wounded by africus and your sails lament, and without girding scarcely is your hull able to endure the mightier. Odes were not well received when first published in rome, yet augustus later commissioned a ceremonial.
Carmina are a collection in four books of latin lyric poems by horace. Maurice connelly, jen faulkner, robbie glen, isabelle laitem, elizabeth manner, david mcallister, and amy wojdyla contributed to the writing, james molnar to the discussion, and professor shirley. Here horace addresses as i said in my paper piety, poetry, death, and limitations. Your little heifers fancy feeds on verdant lawns and flowry meads, whose haunts she has preferrd. Born in venusia in southeast italy in 65 bce to an italian freedman and landowner, he was sent to rome for schooling and was later in athens studying philosophy when caesar was assassinated. A new complete downloadable english translation of the odes and other poetry translations including lorca, petrarch, propertius, and mandelshtam. The love poems are nearly all in the graceful asclepiadic measures, but the stately alcaic is employed in the simulation of bacchic frenzy in ii 19. Choose from 500 different sets of translation 3 horace flashcards on quizlet. The pontiffs books, the musty scrolls of the seers, it insists the muses proclaimed on the alban mount. Me singing, careless and unarmd, a grisly wolf surprised, and fled. Horace and the pyrrhatechnics of translation jstor. The sailor and sailing images, typical of horace, also bring to mind lucretius 2. As yet she cannot suit her mate, nor stand to bear the mighty weight of an impetuous male. Edmunds, intertextuality and the reading of roman poetry baltimore.
There is also a commentary which explains the poems. Horace is not entirely consistent in his choice of measures. Translation from francese and smith 2014 boys should grow tough in harsh military service. He, drivn by that autumnal goat and southern winds, is forcd away, his meditations to devote on fair asterie night and day, and joyless, sleepless. Horace the odes, epodes, satires, epistles, ars poetica and carmen saeculare. It is a pity that horace gets so little attention at schools, at least here in the netherlands. French pleiades group and so to the elizabethan poets, and. Here is a new loeb classical library edition of the great roman poets odes and epodes, a fluid translation facing the latin text. Enough of snow and hail at last the sire has sent in vengeance down. His bolts, at his own temple cast, appalld the town, appalld the lands, lest pyrrha s time return, with all its monstrous sights, when proteus led his flocks to climb the flattend heights, when fish were in the elmtops caught, where once the stockdove wont to bide, and does were floating, all distraught, adown the tide. Christopher smarts verse translation of horace s odes. Perhaps we may take miltons celebrated translation of the ode to pyrrha as a starting point. To suffer hardness with good cheer, in sternest school of warfare bred, our youth should learn. French editions of horace were influential in england and these too were regularly bowdlerized.
Literal english translation original latin line i hate persian furnishments, boy, wreaths twined around the limetrees displease. The odes, book one, ix, translated by john dryden behold yon mountain. Horace the odes a new freely downloadable translation. See all 75 formats and editions hide other formats and. Then thered be no stone in an olive, shell on a nut. And by the streams, which willows shade, she loves to have her gambols playd with younglings.
It will be observed that the sapphic stanza consists of three long lines. After expressing his indignation against the person who planted. As yet her tender necks unbroke, nor to confine her in the yoke will all your skill avail. Yet horaces lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neolatin sometimes served as. Odes horacebook i38 wikisource, the free online library. Maecenas, descended from royal ancestors, o both my protection and my darling honor. In a similar manner, while he abhorred the french revolution when it came. Horace returns to this frightening narrow escape in odes ii.
Poetry books often present a related series of poems, as in the three satiric. The three books of horaces odes were published in 23 bc and gained him his reputation as the greatest latin lyric poet. Nov 03, 2012 when i was considering which poem to translate for the times stephen spender prize for poetry in translation, this particular horace ode caught my eye, as it captures the almost maddening effect of romantic jealousy. Here vergil writes to his friend vergil yes, the vergil, writer of. Here he, in all his sarcasm, claims that he will live forever. Odes and carmen saeculare colin john holcombe ocaso press 2014. Apr 08, 2015 april 8, 2015 in premodern art and society tags. Here vergil writes to his friend vergil yes, the vergil, writer of the aeneid, about the death of their friend quintilus.
Odes horacebook iii2 wikisource, the free online library. A similar change between the earlier odes of horace, in which he declares his. Yet horaces lyrics could offer inspiration to libertines as well as moralists, and neolatin sometimes served as a kind of discrete veil for the risque. The latin text of books i and ii of horaces odes is included along with notes for each word.
When i was considering which poem to translate for the times stephen spender prize for poetry in translation, this particular horace ode caught my eye, as it captures the almost maddening effect of romantic jealousy. The poetry of horace born 65 bce is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, stoic and epicurean thought. They speak of the politics of the time, of the return to peace after the agony of civil war. Horaces original, with an interesting modern american translation and helpful commentary by william harris, is here. Horace joined brutuss army and later claimed to have thrown away his shield in his panic to escape.
When i began this translation, horace was very much on my mind. The notes give complete grammatical, syntactical, mythological, geographical, historical, and vocabulary information. Literal english translation original latin line what slender boy, drenched in liquid perfumes, presses hard upon you on many a rose, pyrrha, under cover of a pleasing cave. I scarcely know what excuse i can offer for making public this attempt to translate the untranslatable. Odes book one 7 book two 111 book three 189 book four 3. If, because each of the oldest works of the greeks is still the best, we must weigh our roman writers on the same scales, that doesnt require many words. A fourth book, consisting of 15 poems, was published in bc. Quintus horatius flaccus 8 december 65 bc 27 november 8 bc, known in the. The odes latin carmina are a collection in four books of latin lyric poems by horace. Each word is fully parsed in the notes at the bottom of each page. According to the journal quadrant, they were unparalleled by any collection of lyric poetry produced before or after in latin literature. Christopher smarts verse translation of horaces odes. A poetical translation of the works of horace, with notes collected from his best latin and french commentators, edinburgh. The three books of horace s odes were published in 23 bc and gained him his reputation as the greatest latin lyric poet.
Horace quintus horatius flaccus was a roman poet, satirist, and critic. See all 75 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. No one can be more convinced than i am that a really successful translator must be himself an. William taylors translation is appended to an essay arguing that the opening stanzas of ode 3, book 3, in fact belong with the second ode, as it is here translated. This book provides the latin text from the oxford classical text series of the third book together with a new translation by david west which attempts to be close to the latin while catching the flavour of the original. In this poem, horace discusses the concept of auream mediocritatem the golden mean as it relates to his good friend licinius. A new, english translation of horace s four books of odes. There can be no doubt that to an english reader the metre chosen does give much of.
The odes and carmen seculare of horace latin and english vol 2 1791. A new interpretation of the pyrrha ode horace, ode 1. Of course catullus is more emotional and his lesbia cycle can easily be put into pop music, but i like the contemplative mood horace expresses in some of his poems, in which he describes the pleasures of a. The works of horacefirst book of odes wikisource, the free online.
A literal translation of each ode is included at the back of the book. The metres used by horace in each of the odes, giving the standard number of syllables per line only, are listed at the end of this text see the index below. He has terrified the city, terrified nations, lest the age of lamented pyrrha dreadfully return strange prodigies, when proteus urged his whole herd to seek the heights. George buchanan 15061582, a scotsman who apparently wrote latin as though it were his mother tongue, used them to translate the first verse of the eightysecond psalm. Jul 30, 2012 horace s original, with an interesting modern american translation and helpful commentary by william harris, is here. Here is a new loeb classical library edition of the great roman poets odes and epodes, a fluid translation facing the latin text horace took pride in being the first roman to write a body of lyric poetry. The works of horace translated by christopher smart.
Earlier this week, before the largelyanticipated start of spring break, my fourth period latin class debated horace ode 2. Cease from seeking the places where the late rose fades. Learn translation 3 horace with free interactive flashcards. Book 2 is full of advice, but, unlike the advice of book 1, little is offered by the poets.
Translation from the iliad translation of addisons battle of the pygmies and the cranes festina lente. Odes by horace, translated from latin by wikisource ode 3. Donaldson, 1779, also by philip francis page images at hathitrust horace. Horace associates salty wit with the caustic humor of bion of borysthenes, a popular hellenistic philosopher who also claimed his father was a freedman seller of salted fish epist. There are those whom it delights to have collected olympic dust in the chariot race. Asterie, why do you bewail him, whom the zephyrs shall restore, which fill with vernal breath the sail, wafting bythinian wealth on shore, the happy gyges, whose fair truth is known, and constancy has made so much your own. The project gutenberg ebook of the works of horace, by c. The opening lines, especially, seem important because they say so much about what a translator interprets the original. The odes were developed as a conscious imitation of the short lyric poetry of greek originals pindar, sappho and alcaeus are some. Horace 65 bc8 bc the odes, epodes, satires, epistles. Horace employs a sailing metaphor, as evidently licinius is a sailor himself, to convey. She has helped me understand how 1 the privileging of apollo over dionysus in ode 4.
Horace odes 3 2 in latin, with adjustable running vocabulary. The horatian ode format and style has been emulated since by other poets. Before i continue on to the translation of the entire ode, i have to mention an interesting use of horaces lines 5 and 6. Books i and ii of horace odes grammatically analyzed and literally translated horace odes, books 1 and 2 horace odes, books 1 and 2 horace, leaann osburn on. Key words are aemulari to imitate at line 1 and imitatus imitating, from imitari to. Cnidian, paphian, come remove from the cyprus of thy love, to chambers glycera bids thee prove, with incense summoning thee, and with loosegirdled graces bring thy fiery boy, and hurrying let youth, unsweet without thee, wing with nymphs and mercury.