by Ovid
Orbe locus medio est inter terrasque fretumque
As the Trojan War becomes imminent, rumour is rife.
Metamorphoses Book 12, lines 39 - 63
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Odes 1.3
Virgil’s perils on the sea
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 637 - 678
Philemon and Baucis
Odes 1.2
Rome: disaster and salvation
by Horace
Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae
Horace exalts Augustus, the saviour of Rome from civil war
Odes 1.17
The country is best
Odes 1.21