Latin Poems

Latin poems to know and love.

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

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Aeneid Book 2. lines 595 - 633

Venus speaks

by Virgil

Nate, quis indomitas tantus dolor excitat iras?

Aeneas's mother, Venus, advises her son

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