id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5432 Horace The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace .txt text/plain 29932 2546 88 counsels to the future translator of Horace's Odes, referring, at the that it is necessary in translating an Ode of Horace to choose some analogous metre; as little can I doubt that a translator of the Odes and it is evident, I think, that in translating Horace we shall be "Scriberis Vario" finds its representative in the metre of Mr. Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women." My experience would lead me to the metre which led me to try if I could translate the Ode. Having What god shall Rome invoke to stay To seat you on the throne of wine; no more your breast shall glow Come, let me change my sour for sweet, Not of thee, good father Bacchus, and of Venus fair and bright? Shall bear thy conquering banners far and wide. Shall twice a day thy tuneful praise resound, To make thy worth through days to come ./cache/5432.txt ./txt/5432.txt