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Odes 1.30 (Creech): O Venus

by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) 65–8 BC

Translated by Thomas Creech (1684) · From Odes, Book I (Creech, 1684)

Living

KInd Venus leave the Paphian Isle,
And live with Glycera a while;
A noble Temple she prepares,
With Incense sweet thine Altars smoak,
Thy presence numerous Vows invoak;
She calls Thee with a thousand Prayers.

The Graces with their Zones unloos'd,
The Nymphs their beauties all expos'd
From every Spring, and every Plain;
Thy powerful, hot, and winged Boy,
And Youth that's dull without thy joy,
And Mercury compose thy Train.

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He begs Venus to come to the Temple which his Glycera had prepar'd.

MLA

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). “Odes 1.30 (Creech): O Venus.” Translated by Thomas Creech. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/horace/178/.

Chicago

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). “Odes 1.30 (Creech): O Venus.” Translated by Thomas Creech. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/horace/178/.

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