by Virgil
Vertitur interea caelum et ruit oceano nox,
The fall of Troy begins
Aeneid Book 2, lines 250-267
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Odes 1.29
Iccius goes soldiering
Petronius 28
Kissing is better than sex
Georgics Book 4, lines 243 - 279
Love is the same for all
Elegies, Book 4.7
The last of Cynthia?
Aeneid Book 1, lines 81 - 143
Storm at sea!
by Virgil
Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem
A tremendous storm threatens death to the Trojans
Catullus 51
Catullus translates Sappho
Aeneid Book 2, lines 314-370
Aeneas prepares for a hopeless fight
Odes 1.30
A prayer to Venus
by Horace