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Summary
Date: 23 B.C.E.
The Odes are four books of Latin lyric poems by the Roman poet Horace. The first three books, with eighty-eight poems, were followed by a fourth book of fifteen more. The poems address friends, patrons, lovers and gods, and several praise the emperor Augustus. The English text is based on John Conington’s 1882 verse translation, with archaic language lightly modernized. Four odes that Conington left out (1.25, 2.5, 3.20 and 4.10) are given in Christopher Smart’s prose translation as revised by Theodore Buckley.
Craig A. Evans, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005), 292.
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