by Horace
Pastor cum traheret per freta navibus
An epic theme in lyric verse
Odes 1.15
All Poems
Odes 1.21
Diana and Apollo: a hymn
Metamorphoses Book 12, lines 39 - 63
The House of Rumour
by Ovid
Orbe locus medio est inter terrasque fretumque
As the Trojan War becomes imminent, rumour is rife.
Odes 1.3
Virgil’s perils on the sea
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 637 - 678
Philemon and Baucis
Odes 1.2
Rome: disaster and salvation
by Horace
Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae
Horace exalts Augustus, the saviour of Rome from civil war
Odes 1.17