Horace, Odes 1.22

Carm. 1.22.1Integer vītae scelerisque pūrus
nōn eget Maurīs iaculīs neque arcū
nec venēnātīs gravidā sagittīs,
Fusce, pharetrā,
5sīve per Syrtīs iter aestuōsās
sīve factūrus per inhospitālem
Caucasum vel quae loca fābulōsus
lambit Hydaspēs.

The man upright in life and free of crime has no need of Moorish javelins or a bow, Fuscus, or a quiver heavy with poisoned arrows, whether he is about to make his way through the sweltering Syrtes or through the unfriendly Caucasus or the places that the storied Hydaspes washes.

Note. Metre: Sapphic stanza. Integer vītae scelerisque pūrus: genitives of respect, 'whole in life and pure of crime'. eget takes the ablative: Maurīs iaculīs, arcū, pharetrā (gravidā venēnātīs sagittīs, 'heavy with poisoned arrows'). Fusce: Aristius Fuscus, a witty friend. sīve ... iter factūrus, 'whether about to make his way'. The Syrtes are the quicksands off Libya; the Caucasus and the Hydaspes (in India) mark the ends of the earth. The solemn tone is partly mock-solemn.

Carm. 1.22.9Namque mē silvā lupus in Sabīnā,
10dum meam cantō Lalagēn et ultrā
terminum cūrīs vagor expedītīs,
fūgit inermem;

For a wolf, while I was singing of my Lalage in the Sabine wood and wandering beyond my boundary, my cares set aside, fled from me, though I was unarmed;

Note. The proof, told with a smile: Namque mē ... lupus ... fugit inermem, 'for a wolf fled from me, though unarmed'. dum ... canto Lalagen et ... vagor, 'while I was singing of Lalage and wandering'; dum with the present tense keeps it vivid. cūrīs expedītīs, ablative absolute, 'my cares set free'.

Carm. 1.22.13quāle portentum neque mīlitāris
Daunias lātīs alit aesculētīs
15nec Iubae tellūs generat, leōnum
ārida nūtrīx.

a monster such as neither warlike Daunia rears in its broad oak forests nor the land of Juba, the dry nurse of lions, produces.

Note. quāle portentum, 'such a monster as'. Daunias is Apulia, Horace's home region, called mīlitāris for its soldiers. Iubae tellūs, Juba's land, Mauretania; leōnum ārida nūtrīx, 'the dry nurse of lions', in apposition to tellūs.

Carm. 1.22.17Pōne mē pigrīs ubi nūlla campīs
arbor aestīvā recreātur aurā,
quod latus mundī nebulae malusque
20Iuppiter urget;

Place me on the barren plains where no tree is refreshed by the summer breeze, that side of the world which mists and a hostile sky oppress;

Note. Pōne mē ... ubi ..., 'put me where ...'. pigrīs campīs, 'on the sluggish (barren, frozen) plains'. quod latus mundī, 'that side of the world which'; malus Iuppiter, 'a hostile sky'. The far north.

Carm. 1.22.21pōne sub currū nimium propinquī
sōlis in terrā domibus negātā:
dulce rīdentem Lalagēn amābō,
dulce loquentem.

place me under the chariot of the sun, too near, in a land denied to houses: I shall love my sweetly laughing Lalage, my sweetly talking Lalage.

Note. sub currū nimium propinquī sōlis, 'under the chariot of the too-near sun'; in terrā domibus negātā, 'in a land denied to houses' (the burning south). The ending echoes Sappho: dulce rīdentem ... dulce loquentem, 'sweetly laughing, sweetly talking'; dulce is an adverbial accusative.