Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Metamorphoses, Book 2, lines 178 - 216
Phaethon, continued
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Caesar’s Centurion pledges loyalty
Summi tunc munera pili
Lessons in loyalty and daring from an old campaigner
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 301 - 332
Phaethon, concluded
Dixerat haec Telllus: neque enim tolerare vaporem
Jupiter's intervention finally brings Phaethon's disastrous chariot-ride to a close
De Bello Civile, Book 1, lines 213 - 234
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Fonte cadit modico, parvisque impellitur undis
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Propertius Elegies, Book 1 no. 12
A change of fortune
Quid mihi desidiae non cessas fingere crimen,
Propertius and the pains of separation
Odes, Book 4, Ode 1
Horace returns to lyric poetry
Intermissa, Venus, diu
Love at fifty
Odes 1.16
Lovely mother, lovelier daughter
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior
Horace recants