by Horace
Albi, ne doleas plus nimio memor
Fickle Venus has a sense of humour
Odes 1.33
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Georgics Book 3, lines 6 - 22 and 40 - 48
Virgil’s poetic temple to Caesar
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 150 - 177
Phaethon
by Ovid
Occupat ille levem juvenali corpore currum
Phaethon's ride in the chariot of the Sun begins.
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
Odes 1.8
A Farewell to arms
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
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