Living
Odes 3.22: Montium Custos
Translated by John Conington (3rd ed., before 1869) · From Odes, Book III
Living
Guardian of hill and woodland, Maid,
Who to young wives in childbirth's hour
Thrice call'd, vouchsafest sovereign aid,
O three-form'd power!
This pine that shades my cot be thine;
Here will I slay, as years come round,
A youngling boar, whose tusks design
The side-long wound.
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MLA
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). “Odes 3.22: Montium Custos.” Translated by John Conington. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/horace/76/.
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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). “Odes 3.22: Montium Custos.” Translated by John Conington. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/horace/76/.
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