“Persicos odi” opens Horace’s Odes 1.38, and the speaker is addressing a slave boy: I hate Persian luxuries, wreaths woven with linden bark displease me, stop searching for where the late rose lingers.
Ōdī is a perfect form with a present meaning, “I hate”, as in the opening of Odes 3.1. Mitte, “stop”, takes the deponent infinitive sectārī, “searching for”. Tap the words to see each form.
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Horace · Odes 1.38
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PersicōsPersianōdīI hate
