by Horace
Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloe
Time to grow up, Chloe
Odes 1.23
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
Odes 1.34
A change of mind
Aeneid Book 2, lines 567-594
Helen in the darkness
by Virgil
Iamque adeo super unus eram, cum limina Vestae
Aeneas catches sight of Helen of Troy in the falling city
Odes1.10
A prayer to Mercury
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Caesar’s Centurion pledges loyalty
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 301 - 332
Phaethon, concluded
by Ovid
Dixerat haec Telllus: neque enim tolerare vaporem
Jupiter's intervention finally brings Phaethon's disastrous chariot-ride to a close
Ode 1.14
Stormy seas
Odes 4.2
Pindar and Augustus
by Horace
Aeneid Book 2. lines 595 - 633