Odes 4.7
Housman and Horace
Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Catullus 10
A fashionable conversation
Varus me meus ad suos amores
Bright young things
Georgics Book 4, lines 243 - 279
Love is the same for all
Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque
Desire affects all living beings
Georgics Book 4, lines 149 - 190
The natural history of bees
nunc age, naturas apibus quas Iuppiter ipse
Bees and their city state
Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Caesar’s Centurion pledges loyalty
Summi tunc munera pili
Lessons in loyalty and daring from an old campaigner
De Bello Civile, Book 1, lines 213 - 234
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Fonte cadit modico, parvisque impellitur undis
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Odes, Book 4, Ode 1
Horace returns to lyric poetry
Intermissa, Venus, diu
Love at fifty