Note 10 — ON TRANSLATING THE ODES OF HORACE W. P. TRENT

Just as I am revising these comments, the two volumes of the Earl of Lytton’s admirable biography of his grandfather find themselves on my table. As was to be expected, they contain several interesting references to Horace. "He is the model for popular lyrics, and certainly the greatest lyrist extant." Again—"Observe how wonderfully he compresses and studies terseness, as if afraid to bore an impatient, idle audience; secondly, when he selects his picture, how it stands out—Cleopatra’s flight, the speech of Regulus, the vision of Hades in the ode on his escape from the tree, &c."