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A New Translation of Horace's Odes - The Odes of Horace rendered into English with other Verses and Translations. By Francis Law Latham, M.A., Brasenose College, Oxford. London: Smith, Elder and Co.1910. Pp. 257. 6s. net.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. P. Postgate
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1910 , pp. 286 - 293
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1910

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1 Later on he says, ‘He (i.e. the translator) should largely abridge the syllabic length of the Latin text, should carry compression to the farthest practicable point.’

page 287 note 2 There is the same error in Conington's shorter version quoted on p. 293 below.

page 290 note 1 Dead Language and Dead Languages (Murray, 1910), pp. 19 and 20.

page 291 note 1 The use of Greek derivatives for the purpose of conveying an air of unreality in Latin which I have pointed out in the pamphlet above cited may be illustrated from Juvenal iii. 68. et ceromatico fert niceteria collo of the Roman whom Greek fashions have denationalized.