by Virgil
Primus se Danaum, magna comitante caterva
Aebeas recounts his first clash with the Greeks
Aeneid Book 2, lines 370-400
All Poems
Odes 1.12
Augustus, master of the world
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 4.7
Housman and Horace
by Horace
Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws
Catullus 17
Marriage guidance from Catullus
Aeneid Book 2, lines 401-452
Cassandra is taken
Odes 1.7
The consolations of wine
Aeneid Book 1, lines 387 - 409
Venus’s swans
by Virgil
'Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras
The oracle of the swans brings good news to Aeneas