The classical student's translation of Horace; or, The works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, tr. for classical students by H.P. Haughton |
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Common terms and phrases
agreeable Apollo Apulia Archytas arms as-soon-as as-to at-length Augustus Bacchus better bird blest brave burning Cæsar cask Chimæra companion cups death delight Diana dread earth Euphorbus Eurus Falernian Falernian wine father Faunus fear fierce fire fleeing frankincense Geloni Gods grove Hadria hairs hasten honor Horatius horses Hymettus Iapyx impious in-vain it-delights it-is Jupiter kings labor land Latium lest live Lydia lyre Mæcenas Matronalia Medes middle-of mind miserable mother mournful Muse ODE VII on-account-of or-if Orcus Parthians persons poet praise prayers purple Pyrrha rage rich river Roman Rome sacred sailors SATIRE Scythian seek shining ship sing slaves so-that song spare stars Stertinius such-as sweet swift Telephus temples Teucer that-I that-you thee things thou Thracian thrice Thyiades Tibur Troy Venus verses vices vine virgins virtue wandering waters waves whence whither wine with-me with-you woods words youth
Popular passages
Page 15 - Famula, ae. f. (famulus, a servant ;) a maid; a female servant or slave. Fas, n. ind. (for,) right; (by the laws of religion or of God :) a lawful thing. Fascis, is, m. a bundle; a fagot : fasces, pi. bundles of birchen rods, carried before the Roman magistrates, with an axe bound up in the middle of them. Fatalis, e, adj. (fatum,) fatal; ordained by fate. Fateor, fateri, fassus sum, tr.
Page 6 - Obstrictis alliis, praster lapyga." "May the brothers of Helen, bright stars, and the Father of the winds, guide you ; and may you only feel the breath of the zephyr." I engraved this line of Virgil upon the bark of a gum-tree, under the shade of which Paul sometimes seated himself, in order to contemplate the agitated sea: — " Fortunatus et ille deos qui...
Page 84 - FRAN. sive potentate). To-morrow a tempest sent from the east shall strew the grove with many leaves, and the shore with useless sea-weed, unless that old prophetess of rain, the raven, deceives me Pile up the dry wood, while you may ; tomorrow you shall indulge your genius with wine, and with a pig of two months old, with your slaves dismissed from their labors. ODE XVm.
Page 183 - ... had considered my dress, and the slaves who attended me in so populous a city, he would have concluded that those expenses were supplied to me out of some hereditary estate. He himself, of all others the most faithful guardian, was constantly about every one of my preceptors. Why should I multiply words ? ' He preserved me chaste (which is the first honor of virtue) not only from every actual guilt, but likewise from [every] foul imputation, nor was he afraid lest any should turn it to his reproach,...
Page 126 - ... out of a well-seasoned cask, prepares the unbought collation ; not the Lucrine oysters could delight me more, or the turbot, or the scar, should the tempestuous winter drive any from the eastern floods to this sea ; not the turkey, nor the Asiatic wild fowl, can come into my stomach more agreeable, than the olive gathered from the richest branches of the trees, or the sorrel, that loves the meadows, or mallows, salubrious for a sickly body, or a lamb slain at the feast of the Gorft Terminus,...
Page 83 - Apulian ploughs, needy amidst great riches; a river of pure water and a wood of a few acres and...
Page 10 - ... all the evidence we have except for inferences drawn from Horace's poems. Let us see what he does say about Tibur. In his ode to his friend Plancus (Odes I, vn), Horace praises Tibur: "As for me, not hardy Lacedaemon, nor the rich fields of Larisa have impressed me so forcibly as the echoing house of Albunea, and the headlong Anio, and the grove of Tiburnus and the orchards watered by the running rills.
Page 31 - ... will now deny that it is probable for precipitate rivers to flow back again to the high mountains, and for Tiber to change his course, since you are about to exchange the noble works of Panaetius, collected from all parts, together with the whole Socratic family,36 for Iberian armour, after you had promised better things ? ODE XXX. • TO VENUS. O VENUS, queen of Gnidos 37 and Paphos, neglect your favourite Cyprus, and transport yourself into the beautiful temple of Glycera, who is invoking you...