by Westbrook
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Odes 1.6
Horace’s limitations
Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
by Virgil
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 178 - 216
Phaethon, continued
by Ovid
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues
Odes 1.23
Horace’s Chloe
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Caesar’s Centurion pledges loyalty
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 301 - 332
Phaethon, concluded
by Ovid
Dixerat haec Telllus: neque enim tolerare vaporem
Jupiter's intervention finally brings Phaethon's disastrous chariot-ride to a close
Ode 1.14
Stormy seas
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 213 - 234
