Translation:Odes (Horace)/Book I/38

by Horace

Literal English Translation	Original Latin	Line
I hate Persian furnishments, boy, wreaths twined around the lime-trees displease. Cease from seeking the places where the late rose fades. Add nothing to the simple myrtle, I beg, though you are eager: it is not unsuitable for you, my servant, nor me, [as I sit] beneath the tied vines, drinking.	Persicōs ōdī, puer, apparātūs, displicent nexae philyrā corōnae, mitte sectārī, rosa quō locōrum      sēra morētur. Simplicī myrtō nihil adlabōrēs sēdulus, cūrō: neque tē ministrum dēdecet myrtus neque mē sub artā      vīte bibentem.	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8