by Virgil
Cunctanti telum Aeneas fatale coruscat
Virgil's great epic concludes with Turnus's death
Aeneid Book 12, lines 919 - 952
Latin Poems
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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
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Eton College in the gateway to Orcus
by Gray
Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci
Virgil's traces are visible in this eighteenth-century poet