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Horace, Odes 1.22
(Text followed by translation)
Listen to the recording read by Robert P. Sonkowsky:
Horace
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Integer vītae
scelerisque pūrus |
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nōn
eget Maurīs
iaculīs
neque arcū |
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nec venēnātīs
gravidā
sagittīs, |
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Fusce, pharetrā, |
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sīve
per Syrtīs
iter aestuosās |
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sīve
factūrus
per inhospitālem |
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Caucasum vel quae loca fābulōsus |
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lambit Hydaspēs. |
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namque mē
silvā
lupus in Sabīnā, |
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dum meam cantō
Lalagēn
et ultrā |
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terminum cūrīs
vagor expedītīs, |
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fūgit
inermem; |
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quāle
portentum neque mīlitāris |
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Dauniās
lātīs
alit aesculētīs |
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nec Iubae tellūs
generat, leōnum |
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ārida
nūtrīx. |
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pōne
mē
pigrīs
ubi nūlla
campīs |
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arbor aestīvā
recreātur
aurā, |
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quod latus mundī
nebulae malusque |
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Iuppiter urget; |
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pōne
sub currū
nimium propinquī |
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sōlis
in terrā
domibus negātā: |
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dulce rīdentem
Lalagēn
amābō, |
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dulce loquentem. |
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The man of upright life and pure from wickedness, O Fuscus
has no need of the Moorish javelins or bow, or quiver loaded
with poisoned darts. Whether he is about to make his journey
through the sultry Syrtes, or the inhospitable Caucasus, or
those places which Hydaspes, celebrated in story, washes.
For lately, as I was singing my Lalage, and wandered beyond
my usual bounds, devoid of care, a wolf in the Sabine wood
fled from me, though I was unarmed: such a monster, as
neither the warlike Apulia nourishes in its extensive woods,
nor the land of Juba, the dry nurse of the lions, produces. Place
me in those barren plains, where no tree is refreshed by the
genial air; at that part of the world, which clouds and an inclement
atmosphere infest. Place me under the chariot of the
too neighbouring sun, in a land deprived of habitations;
[there] will I love my sweetly-smiling, sweetly-speaking
Lalage. |
transl. C. Smart -T. Buckley
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