by Virgil
nunc age, naturas apibus quas Iuppiter ipse
Bees and their city state
Georgics Book 4, lines 149 - 190
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Odes 1.6
Horace’s limitations
Metamorphoses Book 6, lines 382 - 400
The flaying of Marsyas
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
Odes 1.23
Horace’s Chloe
Odes 1.34
A change of mind
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391