by Lucan
Fonte cadit modico, parvisque impellitur undis
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 213 - 234
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Elegies, Book 1.12
A change of fortune
Odes 2.18
Luxury versus the simple life
Odes, Book 4, Ode 1
Horace returns to lyric poetry
Odes 1.16
Lovely mother, lovelier daughter
Odes, 1.1
Horace’s first Ode
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
