_Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis Ut prisca gens mortalium, Paterna rura bobus exercet suis, Solutus omni fenore,_[69] the following translation of which shows approximately the rhythm of the original: Oh blest is he, who far from troubles, fears and cares, As did the early mortal race, With oxen of his own through fields ancestral fares, And knows not usury’s disgrace. The shorter line is called an _epode_, or appendix, to the longer, and it is from this that the collection of poems gets its name. The last seven poems of the collection are in various metres, though most of these are in alternating long and short lines. Horace himself calls these poems _Iambics_ simply. In them he imitates the Greek poet Archilochus, but though several of the poems are somewhat aggressive, they all lack the intense and violent tone of invective attributed by the ancients to Archilochus, of which, however, the extant fragments of Archilochus show few traces. In one of his _Epistles_[70] Horace claims to be the first who introduced the iambics of Archilochus into Latin literature, but this is not strictly true, for Catullus and his contemporaries had written invectives in iambics. Horace did, however, introduce the epodic metre, and he is also the first to employ his iambics to castigate the follies of his time rather than individuals. In subject the _Epodes_ range from the praise of rural life (ii) and encouragement to live a life of ease and pleasure (xiii) to invectives against a rich upstart (iv) or a woman who deals in poisons (v, xvii), and a rebuke of the Romans who are eager to stir up a civil war (xvi). The last _Epode_ (xvii) has the form of a dialogue between the poet and the poisoner Canidia, but the others are the simple expressions of the poet’s sentiments, often in the form of a letter or address to a friend. In this they differ from the _Satires_, which have something of the dialogue form, either between two persons mentioned by name or between the poet and some indefinite person, perhaps the reader.