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Horace describes a lively party to welcome Numida home from Spain: hear the poem in the original Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.

In a temple newly dedicated to Apollo, the God of Poetry, Horace prays to the God to grant him a sound and dignified old age with, most importantly, poetry in it. Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.

Apollo and Diana were brother and sister, and both associated with the bow. Hear Horace’s chorus of boys and girls in Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.

Enjoy wine, advises Horace – but don’t overstep the boundaries!

Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.

In an unconventional but moving ode in which the speaker is a drowned sailor, pleas for burial are combined with reflections on the inevitability of death. Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.

At a time when it seems equally possible that Rome may find peace or slide back into disastrous civil war, Horace addresses a heartfelt prayer to Fortuna, a Goddess who can be both kindly and remorselessly cruel. Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.

As well as the messenger of the Gods, Mercury was an incorrigible, but irresistibly playful, thief. Hear Horace’s Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post here.