by Virgil
Forsitan et Priami fuerint quae fata requiris
Priam meets his death
Aeneid Book 2, lines 506-558
Latin Poems
Latin poems to know and love.
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
Odes 1.23
Horace’s Chloe
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