Book III

1. Odi Profanum
2. Dulce Et Decorum Est
3. Stand Firm
4. Temper Power With Wisdom
5. No Surrender
6. Moral Decadence
7. Be True
8. Celebration
9. A Dialogue
10. Cruel One
11. Remember the Danaids
12. Neobule, to Herself
13. O Fons Bandusiae
14. Augustus Returns
15. Too Old
16. Just Enough
17. The Approaching Storm
18. To Faunus
19. Let’s Drink
20. The Conflict
21. Praise Of Wine
22. To Diana
23. Pure Hands
24. Destructive Wealth
25. Bacchanalian Song
26. Enough
27. Europa
28. For Neptune
29. Fortune
30. Aere Perennius

Index of First Lines

1. I hate the vulgar crowd, and keep them away:
2. Let the boy toughened by military service.
3. The passion of the public, demanding what
4. O royal Calliope, come from heaven,
5. We believe thunderous Jupiter rules the sky:
6. Romans, though you’re guiltless, you’ll still expiate.
7. Why weep, Asterie, for Gyges, whom west winds.
8. You, an expert in prose in either language,
9. ‘While I was the man, dear to you,
10. If you drank the water of furthest Don, Lyce,
11. Mercury (since, taught by you, his master,
12. Girls are wretched who can’t allow free play to love, or drown their cares.
13. O Bandusian fountain, brighter than crystal,
14. O citizens, conquering Caesar is home.
15. O, dear wife of poor Ibycus,
16. The towers made of bronze, and the doors made of oak,
17. Aelius, noble descendant of ancient
18. Faunus, the lover of Nymphs who are fleeing,
19. You can tell me the years between.
20. Pyrrhus, you can’t see how dangerous it is.
21. Faithful wine-jar, born, with me, in Manlius’
22. Virgin protectress of the mountain and the grove,
23. Phidyle, my country girl, if you raise your
24. Though you’re richer than the untouched.
25. Where are you taking me, Bacchus,
26. I was suited to sweethearts till now, and performed.
27. Let the wicked be led by omens of screeching.
28. What better thing is there to do,
29. Maecenas, son of Etruscan kings, a jar
30. I’ve raised a monument, more durable than bronze,

Metres Used in Book III.

The number of syllables most commonly employed in each standard line of the verse is given. This may vary slightly for effect (two beats substituted for three etc.) in a given line.

Alcaic Strophe: 11 (5+6) twice, 9, 10

used in Odes: 1-6,17,21,23,26,29

Sapphic and Adonic: 11(5+6) three times, 5

Odes: 8,11,14,18,20,22,27

First Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) all lines

Ode: 30

Second Asclepiadean: 8, 12 (6+6), alternating

Odes: 9,15,19,24,25,28

Third Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) three times, 8

Odes 10,16

Fourth Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) twice, 7, 8

Odes: 7,13

Fifth Asclepiadean: 16 (6+4+6) all lines

Odes: None in Book III

Alcmanic Strophe: 17 (7+10) or less, 11 or less, alternating

Odes: None in Book III

First Archilochian: 17 (7+10) or less, 7 alternating

Odes: None in Book III

Fourth Archilochian Strophe: 18 (7+11) or less, 11 (5+6) alternating

Odes: None in Book III

Second Sapphic Strophe: 7, 15 (5+10) alternating

Odes: None in Book III

Trochaic Strophe: 7,11 alternating

Odes: None in Book III

Ionic a Minore: 16 twice, 8

Ode: 12