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Horace Odes I, XXXV
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.

O diua, gratum quae regis Antium,
praesens uel imo tollere de gradu
mortale corpus uel superbos
uertere funeribus triumphos,

te pauper ambit sollicita prece
ruris colonus, te dominam aequoris
quicumque Bythyna lacessit
Carpathium pelagus carina.

Te Dacus asper, te profugi Scythae,
urbesque gentesque et Latium ferox
regumque matres barbarorum et
purpurei metuunt tyranni,

iniurioso ne pede proruas
stantem columnam, neu populus frequens
ad arma cessantis, ad arma
concitet imperiumque frangat.

Te semper anteit serua Necessitas,
clauos trabalis et cuneos manu
gestans aena nec seuerus
uncus abest liquidumque plumbum;

te Spes et albo rara Fides colit
uelata panno nec comitem abnegat,
utcumque mutata potentis
ueste domos inimica linquis;

at uolgus infidum et meretrix retro
periura cedit, diffugiunt cadis
cum faece siccatis amici,
ferre iugum pariter dolosi.

Serues iturum Caesarem in ultimos
orbis Britannos et iuuenum recens
examen Eois timendum
partibus Oceanoque rubro.

Heu heu, cicatricum et sceleris pudet
fratrumque. Quid nos dura refugimus
aetas, quid intactum nefasti
liquimus? Vnde manum iuuentus

metu deorum continuit? Quibus
pepercit aris? O utinam noua
incude diffingas retusum in
Massagetas Arabasque ferrum!