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Ode IV. In Praise of Drusus and the Race of Neros

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Ode IV. In Praise of Drusus and the Race of Neros

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Ode IV. In Praise of Drusus and the Race of Neros

Poet(s)

Horace

Credits

Translator

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 104:634, 146–149, August 1868.

First line

Ev’n as the thunder’s wingèd minister

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Latin

Related poems

Linked as a series in non-consecutive issues

Book III.—Ode I. On the Wisdom of Content
Ode II. The Discipline of Youth
Ode IV. Invocation to Calliope
Ode XIX. To Telephus.—In Honour of Murena’s Installation in the College of Augurs
Ode XXV. Hymn to Bacchus
Ode XXIX. Invitation of Mæcenas
Ode XXX. Prediction of His Own Future Time
Book IV.—Ode. III. To Melpomene
Ode VII. To Torquatus
Ode XIV. To Augustus, After the Victories of Tiberius
Ode XV. To Augustus on the Restoration of Peace
Epode II. Alfius.—The Charms of Rural Life
Epode X. On Mævius Setting Out On A Voyage
Epode XVI. To The Roman People (or Rather to His Own Political Friends)
Book I.—Ode IX. To Thaliarchus
Book I.—Ode XVII. Invitation To Tyndaris
Book II.—Ode III. To L. Dellius
Book II.—Ode XIX. In Honour Of Bacchus
Book II.—Ode XX. On His Future Fame
Book I.—Ode XXXV. To Fortune
Book I.—Ode III. On Virgil’s Voyage To Athens
Book I.—Ode XV. The Prophecy Of Nereus
Book I.—Ode XXIII. To Chloe
Book I.—Ode XI. To Leuconoë
Book I.—Ode XII. In Celebration Of The Deities And The Worthies Of Rome
Book II.—Ode XVI. To Pompeius Grosphus

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned article Odes of Horace (Continued from p. 43 in our last number) (145-64), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Wellesley Index) (SK, SP). Translator attribution: Wellesley Index and Lord Lytton, Schiller and Horace Translated, George Routledge and Sons, 1875 (AC).

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10422

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “Ode IV. In Praise of Drusus and the Race of Neros,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1868/pom_10422_ode_iv_in_praise_of_drusus_and.html.

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