by Archilochus
ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε, σὺν κώθωνι θοῆς διὰ σέλματα νηὸς
Archilochus on campaign
Archilochus fragments 2, 3 5A and 6
All Poems
Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
by Virgil
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Odes 1.12
Augustus, master of the world
Odes Book 1.34
Awe for the Gods
Elegies, Book 1.4
Back off, Bassus!
by Propertius
Quid mihi tam multas laudando, Basse, puellas
Give up Cynthia for someon else? Never, Bassus!
Elegies, Book 1.5
Back off, Gallus!
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 213 - 234
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Caesar’s Centurion pledges loyalty
Callimachus Epigram 2
Callimachus remembers his poet-friend
εἶπέ τις Ἡράκλειτε τεὸν μόρον
The poet Callimachus remembers his poet-friend Heraclitus