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Horace Odes I, XXVIII
Robin Bond, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, recorded Book One of Horace's Odes one Sunday morning, for the use of his students, and has kindly released the recording for posting here on Latinum.

Te maris et terrae numeroque carentis harenae
mensorem cohibent, Archyta,
pulueris exigui prope latum parua Matinum
munera nec quicquam tibi prodest
aerias temptasse domos animoque rotundum
percurrisse polum morituro.
Occidit et Pelopis genitor, conuiua deorum,
Tithonusque remotus in auras
et Iouis arcanis Minos admissus habentque
Tartara Panthoiden iterum Orco
demissum, quamuis clipeo Troiana refixo
tempora testatus nihil ultra
neruos atque cutem morti concesserat atrae,
iudice te non sordidus auctor
naturae uerique. Sed omnis una manet nox
et calcanda semel uia leti.
Dant alios Furiae toruo spectacula Marti,
exitio est auidum mare nautis;
mixta senum ac iuuenum densentur funera, nullum
saeua caput Proserpina fugit.
Me quoque deuexi rapidus comes Orionis
Illyricis Notus obruit undis.
At tu, nauta, uagae ne parce malignus harenae
ossibus et capiti inhumato
particulam dare: sic, quodcumque minabitur Eurus
fluctibus Hesperiis, Venusinae
plectantur siluae te sospite multaque merces,
unde potest, tibi defluat aequo
ab Ioue Neptunoque sacri custode Tarenti.
Neglegis inmeritis nocituram
postmodo te natis fraudem committere? Fors et
debita iura uicesque superbae
te maneant ipsum: precibus non linquar inultis
teque piacula nulla resoluent.
Quamquam festinas, non est mora longa; licebit
iniecto ter puluere curras.