The Odes and Epodes of Horace: Translated Into English Verse With an Introduction and Notes and Latin Text (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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One of the principal objects which the translator has kept before him is the greatest possible condensation in giving to the odes this English dress. While anything like literal translation would be out of the question in a poetical version, yet it has been thought desirable to represent these lyrics more closely than has been generally considered necessary where the forms of poetry have been employed. In carrying out this design, which renders additions almost impos sible, it is hoped that nothing of importance has been omitted. It is applying strictly to all the odes the methods which distinguished scholars have applied to some of them, and in which their finest work as translators has appeared. Mr. Conington (professor of Latin in the University of Oxford) has carried this out as a principle through the whole of his scholarly translation of the four books of Odes and the Saecular Hymn.

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