Latin poems to know and love.

Metamorphoses Book 8, Lines 780 - 816

Ceres takes revenge

by Ovid

Attonitae dryades damno nemorumque suoque

Fames, the personification of famine and hunger

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Aeneid Book 1, lines 695 - 722

Dido and Cupid

by Virgil

Iamque ibat dicto parens et dona Cupido

In disguise, Cupid stirs Dido to love

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Aeneid Book 1, lines 387 - 409

Venus’s swans

by Virgil

'Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras

The oracle of the swans brings good news to Aeneas

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