Latin poems to know and love.

Aeneid Book 2, lines 370-400

Into battle

by Virgil

Primus se Danaum, magna comitante caterva

Aebeas recounts his first clash with the Greeks

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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

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