by Propertius
Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo
Propertius's praise of natural beauty in women
Elegies, Book 1.2
All Poems
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 679 - 724
Philemon and Baucis concluded
Odes Book 1.4
Carpe diem, Sestius
Aeneid book 1, lines 8-33
Juno’s anger
by Virgil
Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso
Virgil explains Juno's enmity towards the Trojans
Odes 1.20
Horace’s wine
Odes, 1.31
A Prayer to the poetry-God
The Consolation of Philosophy 4. 6. lines 1 - 18
Some things never change
by Boethius
Si vis celsi tonantis iura pura sollers cernere mente
Boethius's reminder that some things never change
Catullus 1
Catullus dedicates his little book
Catullus 2