Book IV

1. Venus, be Merciful
2. Augustus’s Return
3. To The Muse
4. Drusus and the Claudians
5. To Augustus
6. To Apollo
7. Diffugere Nives
8. Poetry
9. Lollius
10. Age
11. Maecenas’ Birthday
12. Spring
13. You too, Lyce
14. Drusus and Tiberius
15. To Augustus

Index of First Lines

1. Venus now you’ve returned again
2. Iulus, whoever tries to rival Pindar,
3. Melpomene, Muse, one whom you.
4. Like the winged agent of the bright lightning-bolt,
5. Son of the blessed gods, and greatest defender
6. God, whom Niobe’s children encountered, O..
7. The snow has vanished, already the grass returns to the fields,
8. I’d give bowls, generously, and pleasing bronzes,
9. Don’t think that the words I speak to accompany
10. O you who are cruel still, and a master of Venus’s gifts,
11. I’ve a jar of Alban wine over nine years.
12. Now Spring’s companions, the Thracian northerlies
13. Lyce, the gods have heard my prayers, the gods have.
14. What care the Citizens and the Senators.
15. Phoebus condemned my verse, when I tried to sing

Metres Used in Book IV.

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: 4,9,14,15

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

Odes: 2,6,11

First Asclepiadean: 12 (6+6) all lines

Ode: 8

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

Odes: 1,3

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

Odes 5,12

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

Ode:13

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

Ode: 10

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

Odes: None in Book IV

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

Ode: 7

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

Odes: None in Book IV

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

Odes: None in Book IV

Trochaic Strophe: 7,11 alternating

Odes: None in Book IV

Ionic a Minore: 16 twice, 8

Ode: None in Book IV