by Virgil
Cui non dictus Hylas puer et Latonia Delos
Virgil looks forward to the Aeneid
Georgics Book 3, lines 6 - 22 and 40 - 48
Latin Poems
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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
Odes 3.10
Locked out
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