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by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 BCE - 8 BCE)
Translation by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894)

Ad puerum
Language: Latin 
Persicos odi, puer, adparatus,
displicent nexae philyra coronae,
mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum
sera moretur.

simplici myrto nihil adlabores
sedulus curo: neque te ministrum
dedecet myrtus neque me sub arta
vite bibentem

Text Authorship:

  • by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 BCE - 8 BCE), "Ad puerum", appears in Carmina (Odes), in 1. Liber I (Book I), no. 38 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894) , "À un enfant", appears in Œuvres de Horace, first published 1873 ; composed by Marcel Trémois.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, appears in Le odi di Orazio, in 1. Libro primo, no. 38
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Lucjan Hipolit Siemieński) , "Do Pachołka", first published 1916


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-08-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 32

À un enfant
Language: French (Français)  after the Latin 
Je hais, enfant, tes apprêts Persiques; 
les couronnes enlacées de tilleul me déplaisent ; 
ne cherche pas en quel lieu 
se rencontre la rose tardive.

Par un soin inutile n'ajoute rien au simple myrte. 
Le myrte ne messied, ni à toi 
qui me sers, ni à moi buvant 
sous la vigne recourbée.

Confirmed with Œuvres de Horace Traduction par Leconte de Lisle. Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur, s. d. (Tome premier)


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "À un enfant", appears in Œuvres de Horace, first published 1873 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Latin by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 BCE - 8 BCE), "Ad puerum", appears in Carmina (Odes), in 1. Liber I (Book I), no. 38
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Marcel Trémois (1891 - 1974), "À un enfant", copyright © 1939 [ voice and piano ], from Deux odes d'Horace, no. 1, Éditions Maurice Sénart, Paris [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-08-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

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