Translation by John Scriven (1843)
The Latin text comes from The Latin Library.
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The Odes of Horace Book III.20
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Book III. Notes
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XX. Translation by John Scriven (1843) ODE XX.TO PYRRHUS. Dost thou not all the peril feel From Libyan lion her whelps to steal? Soon, Pyrrhus, soon, in timid flight, The ravisher shall shun the fight; When, through opposing rival bands, Her fair Nearchus she demands; A contest, if the fight confer The lovely prize on thee or her; While at thy side swift arrows hang, While whets the nymph her dreaded fang, The umpire smiles in careless calm, And spurns, with naked foot, the palm; Refreshing, with the gentle air, His shoulder - spread with perfum'd hair: So Nireus- so the stripling smil'd From Ida's watery brow beguil'd. |
Non Vides. Non uides quanto moueas periclo, cum per obstantis iuuenum cateruas 5 Interim, dum tu celeris sagittas fertur, et leni recreare uento |
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