Choriambic Metre
.Horace gives us a great variety, but the main feature in all is the prevalence of the choriambus (). Specimen translations of two of these metres are subjoined:
(1) Horace, 1 Odes, viii.
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Lydia, why on Stanley,
By the great gods, tell me, I pray, ruinous love you centre?
Never seen now, patient of toil, Marsʹ sunny camp to eʹ ter.
(2) The other specimen is 1 Odes, xii.
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When you, with an approving smile,
Praise those delicate arms, Lydy, of Telephus,