Latin Poems

Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte

Life is short – enjoy it while you are young

Tu ne quaesieris (scire nefas) quem mihi, quem tibi

Carpe diem

Integer vitae scelerisque purus

The upright life protects Horace from a wolf

Poscimur. Si quid vacui sub umbra

The strapline for the first line

Nunc est bibendum

Horace celebrates the defeat of Cleopatra

O saepe mecum tempus in ultimum

Horace welcomes his army comrade

Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume

Horace and the inevitability of fate

Bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus

Horace's hymn to Bacchus