by Tibullus
Te bellare decet terra, Messalla, marique
Tibullus's opening poem
Tibullus 1.1, lines 53 - 78
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Aeneid Book 2, lines 453-506
The battle for Priam’s palace
Georgics Book 4, lines 149 - 190
The natural history of bees
Odes 1.6
Horace’s limitations
Metamorphoses Book 6, lines 382 - 400
The flaying of Marsyas
Aeneid Book 2, lines 506-558
The death of Priam
Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
by Virgil
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 178 - 216
Phaethon, continued
by Ovid
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues