by Lucan
Summi tunc munera pili
Lessons in loyalty and daring from an old campaigner
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
All Poems
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 301 - 332
Phaethon, concluded
by Ovid
Dixerat haec Telllus: neque enim tolerare vaporem
Jupiter's intervention finally brings Phaethon's disastrous chariot-ride to a close
Ode 1.14
Stormy seas
Odes 4.2
Pindar and Augustus
by Horace
Aeneid Book 2. lines 595 - 633
Venus speaks
Ode 2.10
The Golden Mean
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 213 - 234
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Elegies, Book 1.12