by Virgil
Quid faciat laetas segetes
Virgil sets the agricultural scene
Georgics 1, lines 1 - 42
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Elegies, Book 1.4
Back off, Bassus!
by Propertius
Quid mihi tam multas laudando, Basse, puellas
Give up Cynthia for someon else? Never, Bassus!
Metamorphoses Book 8, Lines 738 - 779
The sacrilege of Erysichthon
Odes 3.2
What Roman youth should be
Aeneid Book 1, lines 338-370
Dido’s story
Odes 1.24
Mourning for a good man
by Horace
Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Quintilius, a good man and a friend of Virgil, has died
Odes, 1.36
Numida’s back
by Horace
Georgic 1, lines 351 - 392
Signs of bad weather
Elegies, Book 1.5