by Virgil
desine, nam venio moriturus et haec tibi porto
King Mezentius follows his son to death
Aeneid Book 10. lines 885 - 908
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Aeneid Book 11, lines 24 - 58
Mourning for Pallas
Aeneid Book 11, lines 182 - 202
Rites for the allies’ dead
Aeneid Book 11, lines 539 - 566
The infant Camilla
Aeneid Book 12, lines 161 - 194
Aeneas’s oath
Aeneid Book 12, lines 311 - 340
Aeneas is wounded
Aeneid Book 12, lines 791 - 807 and 818 - 842
Juno is reconciled
by Virgil
Iunonem interea rex omnipotentis Olympi
Juno finally relinquishes her anger against Aeneas and the Trojans
Aeneid Book 12, lines 919 - 952
The death of Turnus
De Rerum Natura, lines 1.44 - 1.48 and 3.894 - 911
Lucretius’s consolation
by Lucretius
omnis enim per se divum natura necessest
Lucretius offers the rational view of grief and fear