by Catullus
Varus me meus ad suos amores
Bright young things
Catullus 10
Poem Tag: Aeneas comes to a country town which will become the great imperial
Odes, Book 4, Ode 1
Horace returns to lyric poetry
Odes 1.16
Lovely mother, lovelier daughter
Odes 1.2
Rome: disaster and salvation
by Horace
Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae
Horace exalts Augustus, the saviour of Rome from civil war
Odes 1.38
Horace rests from his labours
Metamorphoses Book 12, lines 39 - 63
The House of Rumour
by Ovid
Orbe locus medio est inter terrasque fretumque
As the Trojan War becomes imminent, rumour is rife.
Odes 1.3
Virgil’s perils on the sea
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 637 - 678
Philemon and Baucis
Odes, 1.1
