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Title: Odes : With the Latin Text by James Michie, Gregson Davis, Horace ISBN: 0-375-75902-6 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95

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Comment: This is a great way-- perhaps the best-- to get acquainted with the poet Horace. The Latin is printed on the left-hand page, much like the Loeb editions. James Michie often translates into rhymed verse and iambic meter but in many odes he uses the rhythms of the original Latin, which are very complex. Only the Odes are included here, so if you want the Epodes, you'll have to look elsewhere (the same is true for the Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica). I enjoy this book because it allows me to see and hear the Latin-- this is essential-- but I also have a decent English equivalent to help me out. I do wish the editors or translator had included a list of the meters Horace uses, because it is hard to read the original without knowing the proper cadence. But this is a very inexpensive and thoughtful way to read one of the greatest of all poets.