Odes: With the Latin Text. Translated by James Michie. Introd. by Rex WarnerOrion Press, 1963 - 376 pages |
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... look like English , but why should it look like conventional English ? The rhythms of Horace were not " natural " till Horace made them so . And any translator who loves his original ( if he doesn't , he has no business to be ...
... look like English , but why should it look like conventional English ? The rhythms of Horace were not " natural " till Horace made them so . And any translator who loves his original ( if he doesn't , he has no business to be ...
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... the grave and the Lycian line of fire ? IX Look how the snow lies deeply on glittering Soracte . White woods groan and protestingly silvae laborantes , geluque flumina constiterint acuto . dissolve frigus 25 Ă–des Book 1.
... the grave and the Lycian line of fire ? IX Look how the snow lies deeply on glittering Soracte . White woods groan and protestingly silvae laborantes , geluque flumina constiterint acuto . dissolve frigus 25 Ă–des Book 1.
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... wild Muse ! Have you forsworn your light touch ? Simonides wrote better dirges . Come , let's Go to the cave of love And look for music in a jollier key . II Nullus argento color est avaris abdito terris , inimice 103 Odes Book II.
... wild Muse ! Have you forsworn your light touch ? Simonides wrote better dirges . Come , let's Go to the cave of love And look for music in a jollier key . II Nullus argento color est avaris abdito terris , inimice 103 Odes Book II.
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