by Catullus
Flavi, delicias tuas Catullo
Catullus asks his friend awkward questions
Catullus 6
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Aeneid Book 1, lines 695 - 722
Dido and Cupid
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
Metamorphoses Book 1, lines 466-76 and 525-67
Apollo and Daphne
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 846 - 884
Erysichthon’s end
Catullus 51
Catullus translates Sappho
Aeneid book 2, lines 145-198
What is this wooden horse?
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 125 - 157
Pompey the oak and Caesar the thunderbolt
by Lucan
Quis iustius induit arma
Lucan introduces the combatants at the beginning of his poem on the civil war
Elegies, Book 4.8
The last of Cynthia!
by Propertius
disce, quid Esquilias hac nocte fugarit aquosas
Propertius and Cynthia's final reconciliation