Carmina III.30 Odes III.30: A Monument More Lasting than Bronze Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65–8 BCE) 23 BCE Cold Library · Open Stacks · S-008019 · https://coldlibrary.com/s/008019 Rights: Published in 23 BCE; the poet died in 8 BCE. Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026. Guidance, not legal advice. Source: Wikisource (la), Carmina (Horatius)/Liber III/Carmen XXX, https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmina_(Horatius)/Liber_III/Carmen_XXX (retrieved 2026-10-11) English translation: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0 Generated 2026-10-14 from https://coldlibrary.com/en/open-stacks/horace-exegi-monumentum ---- Exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, quod non imber edax, non aquilo impotens possit diruere aut innumerabilis annorum series et fuga temporum. non omnis moriar multaque pars mei vitabit Libitinam; usque ego postera crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex. dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium regnavit populorum, ex humili potens, princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos deduxisse modos. sume superbiam quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam ---- English translation by Claude (an AI) I have finished a monument more lasting than bronze, loftier than the royal pile of the pyramids, one that no gnawing rain, no wild north wind can tear down, nor the numberless procession of the years, nor the flight of time. I shall not wholly die; a great part of me will slip past the goddess of the grave. On and on I shall grow, fresh in the praise of those to come, while up the Capitol the high priest climbs beside the silent Vestal. I shall be spoken of where the wild Aufidus roars, and where Daunus, poor in water, ruled a people of the fields: that I, grown strong from humble roots, was the first to bring the song of Aeolia into Italian measures. Take up the pride your merits have earned, Melpomene, and gladly crown my hair with Delphic laurel.