Ode 22 Book III of the Odes of Horace in English Translation

Bronze medallion of Horace from the reign of Constantine.

Horace, by Wm Tuckwell (1829-1919). London: G. Bell & sons. 1905.

Translated into English verse by John Conington, M.A. Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edition.

The Latin text comes from The Latin Library.

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XXII.

Guardian of hill and woodland, Maid,
Who to young wives in childbirth's hour
Thrice call'd, vouchsafest sovereign aid,
O three-form'd power!
This pine that shades my cot be thine;
Here will I slay, as years come round,
A youngling boar, whose tusks design
The side-long wound.

Montium Custos.

Montium custos nemorumque uirgo,
quae laborantis utero puellas
ter uocata audis adimisque leto,
diua triformis,

inminens uillae tua pinus esto, 5
quam per exactos ego laetus annos
uerris obliquom meditantis ictum
sanguine donem.

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Book III.22 of The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace

Translated into English verse by John Conington, M.A. Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edition.

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Book III. Notes