TY - BOOK AU - Horace AU - Conington,John TI - The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace AV - PA PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Horace -- Translations into English KW - Laudatory poetry, Latin -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odes_(Horace); Release date is 2004-04-01; David Moynihan, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace" by Horace is a collection of Latin lyric poems published between 23 BC and 13 BC. Modeled on Greek poets like Pindar, Sappho, and Alcaeus, these 103 odes adapt ancient forms to Roman life under Augustus. The poems explore love, friendship, wine, religion, morality, and patriotism, while celebrating the uncertainty of life and the golden mean. From "carpe diem" to "nunc est bibendum," Horace's verses sparkle with studied spontaneity and timeless wisdom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5432 ER -