Latin Poems

Latin poems to know and love.

Aeneid Book 2. lines 595 - 633

Venus speaks

by Virgil

Nate, quis indomitas tantus dolor excitat iras?

Aeneas's mother, Venus, advises her son

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Aeneid Book 5, lines 443-484

The boxers

by Virgil

Ostendit dextram insurgens Entellus, et alte

Boxers Entellus and Dares slug it out with the cestus

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