Horace, Epodi

contra latrones atque servilem manum

against robbers and a slave band,

hoc, hoc tribuno militum?”

with this man, this man, as military tribune?”

“At o deorum quidquid in caelo regit

“But O, whatever power of the gods in heaven rules

terras et humanum genus,

the earth and the human race,

quid iste fert tumultus aut quid omnium

what does this uproar mean, or what [mean] the faces of all

aere, dehinc ferro duravit saecula, quorum

with bronze, then with iron he hardened the ages, from which

piis secunda vate me datur fuga.

a happy escape is granted to the pious, with me as prophet.

“Iam iam efficaci do manus scientiae,

“Now, now I surrender to powerful knowledge,

supplex et oro regna per Proserpinae,

and, a suppliant, I beg you by the realms of Proserpina,

per et Dianae non movenda numina,

and by Diana’s divinity, which must not be provoked,