Horace Odes II:10 "The Golden Mean" LATIN & ENGLISH
Channel: David Rudmin
Date: 2015-08-08

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--See Latin text in first comment below--
Written in Sapphic Meter: 
- u - - - / u u - u - u  .
- u - - - / u u - u - u  .
- u - - - / u u - u - u  .
.         -   u u - u        .

"-" = Long (quarter note); "u" = short (eighth note); "/" = feet separation (≈"barline" in musical tablature)

DISCLAIMER:  These poetry readings are not necessarily stylistically polished, as that is not my general goal here.  Rather, my goal here is to over-emphasize and thereby bring to attention all the integral, mechanical elements of the poem (rhythm / phrasing / meaning-&-translation / correct classical vowel pronunciation / word-agreement-indicated-by-similar-voice-inflection / etc.) so that  the listener may--as much as possible--understand all that is going on here.  Once everything is--at least subconsciously--understood, then the listener will be able to--if they so wish--themself pollish the recitation, later; however, that would be a later step, and so it is not my purpose, here.