by Horace
Velox amoenum saepe Lucretilem
Horace prefers his Sabine farm to town life
Latin poems to know and love.
Odes 1.17
Odes 1.21
Odes 2.8
Elegies, Book 1.2
by Propertius
Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo
Propertius's praise of natural beauty in women
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 679 - 724
Odes Book 1.4
Aeneid book 1, lines 8-33
by Virgil
Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso
Virgil explains Juno's enmity towards the Trojans