1. horatius

  • Lauriger Horatius

    Translated by John Addington Symonds

    LAUREL-CROWNED Horatius,
      True, how true thy saying!
    Swift as wind flies over us
      Time, devouring, slaying.
    Where are, oh! those goblets full
      Of wine honey-laden,
    Strifes and loves and bountiful
      Lips of ruddy maiden?

    Grows the young grape tenderly,
      And the maid is...

    From the Medieval Latin

  • Horatius at the Bridge

    Lars Porsena of Clusium,
      By the Nine Gods he swore
    That the great house of Tarquin
      Should suffer wrong no more.
    By the Nine Gods he swore it,
      And named a trysting-day,
    And bade his messengers ride forth,
    East and west and south and north,
      To summon his array.

    East and west and south and north
      The...

    Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

  • Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius

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         Lars Porsena of Clusium

              By the Nine Gods he swore

         That the great house of Tarquin

              Should suffer wrong no more.

         By the Nine Gods he swore it,

              And named a trysting day,

         And bade his messengers ride forth,

         ...