The Odes of Horace: A Bilingual Edition. I think that Horace is best taken in small doses. Trying to read ode after ode becomes somewhat overwhelming. Ferry has some good lines, but I don't feel he's a poet/translator like Robert Fitzgerald or Allen Mandelbaum. Perhaps this is merely Horace, but I don't know Latin.
Horace can be very epigrammatic, though there is a certain melancholy to these odes, which might be the influence of Stoicism. The sentiment is often noble, though at times there is a certain sensuality as well. These are very masculine poems, many are virtually "buddy" poems.
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