by Horace
Ulla si iuris tibi peierati
Barine, who gets away with anything
Odes 2.8
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Elegies, Book 1.2
The beauty of simplicity
by Propertius
Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo
Propertius's praise of natural beauty in women
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 679 - 724
Philemon and Baucis concluded
Odes Book 1.4
Carpe diem, Sestius
Aeneid book 1, lines 8-33
Juno’s anger
by Virgil
Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso
Virgil explains Juno's enmity towards the Trojans
Odes 1.20
Horace’s wine
Odes, 1.31
A Prayer to the poetry-God
Odes 2.13
Curse you, tree!
The Consolation of Philosophy 4. 6. lines 1 - 18
Some things never change
by Boethius
Si vis celsi tonantis iura pura sollers cernere mente
Boethius's reminder that some things never change