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Horace Odes I, XXXVII
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.

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus, nunc Saliaribus
ornare puluinar deorum
tempus erat dapibus, sodales.

Antehac nefas depromere Caecubum
cellis auitis, dum Capitolio
regina dementis ruinas
funus et imperio parabat

contaminato cum grege turpium
morbo uirorum, quidlibet impotens
sperare fortunaque dulci
ebria. Sed minuit furorem

uix una sospes nauis ab ignibus,
mentemque lymphatam Mareotico
redegit in ueros timores
Caesar, ab Italia uolantem

remis adurgens, accipiter uelut
mollis columbas aut leporem citus
uenator in campis niualis
Haemoniae, daret ut catenis

fatale monstrum. Quae generosius
perire quaerens nec muliebriter
expauit ensem nec latentis
classe cita reparauit oras,

ausa et iacentem uisere regiam
uoltu sereno, fortis et asperas
tractare serpentes, ut atrum
corpore conbiberet uenenum,

deliberata morte ferocior:
saeuis Liburnis scilicet inuidens
priuata deduci superbo,
non humilis mulier, triumpho.