Conington

In his excellent and thought-provoking address about humanities and philanthropy (Australian Book Review, June), Professor Malcolm Gillies directs our attention to the concluding poem (Carmen xxx) in Book III of the Odes of Horace in the verse translation by John Conington, specifically to the phrase “… usque ego postera/Crescam laude recens …,” of which the fragment “postera crescam laude” has since 1854 served as the motto of my alma mater, the University of Melbourne.

postera crescam laude 2009

The Graces and the Nymphs, together knit, With rhythmic feet the meadow beat (Conington).

Symposium 2007

Then eat a temperate luncheon, just to stay A sinking stomach till the close of day (Conington).

Oeconomicus 2007

In this translation I have in the main followed the text of Conington and Nettleship.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Occasionally also, as in the Idyll here printed last -- the one lately discovered by Bergk, which I elucidated by the light of Fritzsche's conjectures -- I have availed myself of an opinion which Professor Conington somewhere expresses, to the effect that, where two interpretations are tenable, it is lawful to accept for the purposes of translation the one you might reject as a commentator.

Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

'Quem ego nefrendem alui lacteam immulgens opem,' is, according to Conington, a rendering of Aesch.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Conington, for example, has frequently done the poet an injustice by assuming that Vergil was in error whenever his statements seem not to accord with what we happen to know.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Conington sanely decides that only one eviction took place, and he places the ninth before the first in order of time.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

The atoms of fire are struck out of the flint (VI, 6), the atoms of light are emitted from the sun (VII, 527, and VIII, 23), early men were born duro robore and lived like those described in the fifth book of Lucretius (VIII, 320), and Conington finds almost two hundred reminiscences of Lucretius in the

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

I am still more confident that Conington was right when he insisted that the English rendering houls be confined “within the same number of lines as the Latin.

On Translating the Odes of Horace 1914