{"id":10979,"date":"2012-01-20T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T16:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2012-12-12T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:46:00","slug":"horace-odes-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/2012\/01\/20\/horace-odes-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace’s lyric meters: Asclepiadeans (Odes 1.1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Herewith a re-do of a poem I have done on an earlier podcast<\/a>, this time with special attention to the meter. It is part of a series on Horace’s lyric meters. This installment focuses on a meter that scholars call variously Asclepiads<\/a>, asclepiadeans, the First Asclepiad, and the Lesser Asclepiad. The name is given by ancient grammarians, and evidently derives from a certain Greek poet named Asclepiades, though which one and why are unclear<\/a>. I generally hate the cryptic way textbooks and scholarly publications deal with Latin meters, but there is one article I found helpful in thinking about this one, Leon Richardson, “On the Form of Horace’s Lesser Asclepiads<\/a>, ” America Journal of Philology<\/em> 22 (1901) 283-296 (look past the outdated terminology and check out the stats on sense pauses, ictus and accent, word length, and ‘compactness’) . There is a reasonably literal\u00a0\u00a0translation of the poem here<\/a>. Hope you enjoy, and do leave a comment if you would like to.<\/p>\n

Horace, Odes 1.1new<\/a><\/p>\n

Maecenas atavis edite regibus,
\no et praesidium et dulce decus meum:
\nsunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
\ncollegisse iuvat metaque fervidis
\nevitata rotis palmaque nobilis 5
\nterrarum dominos evehit ad deos;
\nhunc, si mobilium turba Quiritium
\ncertat tergeminis tollere honoribus;
\nillum, si proprio condidit horreo
\nquidquid de Libycis verritur areis. 10
\ngaudentem patrios findere sarculo
\nagros Attalicis condicionibus
\nnumquam demoveas, ut trabe Cypria
\nMyrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare;
\nluctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum 15
\nmercator metuens otium et oppidi
\nlaudat rura sui: mox reficit rates
\nquassas indocilis pauperiem pati.
\nest qui nec veteris pocula Massici
\nnec partem solido demere de die 20
\nspernit, nunc viridi membra sub arbuto
\nstratus, nunc ad aquae lene caput sacrae;
\nmultos castra iuvant et lituo tubae
\npermixtus sonitus bellaque matribus
\ndetestata; manet sub Iove frigido 25
\nvenator tenerae coniugis inmemor,
\nseu visa est catulis cerva fidelibus,
\nseu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas.
\nme doctarum hederae praemia frontium
\ndis miscent superis, me gelidum nemus 30
\nNympharumque leves cum Satyris chori
\nsecernunt populo, si neque tibias
\nEuterpe cohibet nec Polyhymnia
\nLesboum refugit tendere barbiton.
\nquodsi me lyricis vatibus inseres, 35
\nsublimi feriam sidera vertice.<\/p>\n

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Herewith a re-do of a poem I have done on an earlier podcast, this time with special attention to the meter. It is part of a series on Horace’s lyric meters. This installment focuses on a meter that scholars call variously Asclepiads, asclepiadeans, the First Asclepiad, and the Lesser Asclepiad. The name is given by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1783,5522,1782,5523,5524],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-delivery","tag-horace","tag-latin-audio","tag-lyric-meters","tag-maecenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/latin-poetry-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}