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A Poetical Translation of the works of Horace

With the Original Text, and Critical Notes collected from his best Latin and French Commentators. By the Revd Mr. Philip Francis...The third edition
Francis, Philip (1708?-1773)
  
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VOL. I.
  
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THE ODES OF HORACE.
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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE ODES of HORACE.
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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE ODES of HORACE.
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THE THIRD BOOK OF THE ODES of HORACE.
 I. 
Ode I.
 II. 
Ode II. To his Friends.
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Ode III.
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Ode IV. To Calliope.
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Ode V. The Praises of Augustus.
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Ode VI. To the Romans.
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Ode VII. To Asterie.
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Ode VIII. To Mæcenas.
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Ode IX. A Dialogue between Horace and Lydia.
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Ode X. To Lyce.
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Ode XI. To Mercury.
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Ode XII. To Neobule.
 XIII. 
Ode XIII. To the Fountain Bandusia.
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Ode XIV. On the Return of Augustus from Spain.
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Ode XV. To Chloris.
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Ode XVI. To Mæcenas.
 XVII. 
Ode XVII. To Ælius Lamia.
 XVIII. 
Ode XVIII. To Faunus.
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Ode XIX. To Telephus.
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Ode XX. To Pyrrhus.
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Ode XXI. To his Cask.
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Ode XXII. To Diana.
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Ode XXIII. To Phidyle.
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Ode XXIV. Against Misers.
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Ode XXV. To Bacchus.
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Ode XXVI. To Venus.
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Ode XXVII. To Galatea.
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Ode XXVIII. To Lyde.
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Ode XXIX. To Mæcenas.
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Ode XXX. To Melpomene.
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THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE ODES of HORACE.
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THE BOOK OF THE EPODES of HORACE.
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THE SECULAR POEM.
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VOL. II.

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To the Chorus of Youths and Virgins.

Phoebus taught me how to sing,
How to tune the vocal String;
Phœbus made me known to Fame,
Honour'd with a Poet's Name.
Noble Youths, and Virgins fair,
Chaste Diana's guardian Care,
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(Goddess, whose unerring Dart
Stops the Lynx or flying Hart)
Mark the Lesbian Measures well,
Where they fall, and where they swell;
And in various Cadence sing,
As I strike the changing String.
To the God, who gilds the Skies,
Let the solemn Numbers rise;
Solemnising the Queen of Night,
And her Crescent's bending Light,
Which adown the fruitful Year
Rolls the Months in prone Career.
Soon upon her bridal Day,
Thus the joyful Maid shall say,
When the great revolving Year
Bad the festal Morn appear,
High the vocal Hymn I rais'd,
And the listening Gods were pleas'd;
All the vocal Hymn divine,
Horace, tuneful Bard, was thine.
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