John Conington, Oxford’s professor of Latin, renders all four books of the Odes and the Secular Hymn into rhymed English stanzas, attempting what he called translating the untranslatable. Here are Horace’s poems to Maecenas and friends, on wine, love, the brevity of life and the peace of the simple country estate, with notes.
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