Georgics Book 1, lines 461 - 514
Catastrophe for Rome?
Denique quid vesper serus vehat
Only Augustus can save Rome
Poem Tag: Bassus
Elegies Book 1.6
No thank you, Tullus
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 817 - 845
Erysichthon the Glutton
Dicta Fames Cereris, quamvis contraria semper
Hunger invades the blasphemer, Erysichthon
Aeneid Book 1, lines 387 - 409
Venus’s swans
'Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras
The oracle of the swans brings good news to Aeneas
Metamorphoses Book 1, lines 466-76 and 525-67
Apollo and Daphne
inpiger umbrosa Parnasi constitit arce
To escape Apollo, Daphne becomes a laurel tree
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 846 - 884
Erysichthon’s end
Iamque fame patrias altaque voragine ventris
Erysichthon's horrible end
Georgics, Book 2, lines 458 - 474
The farmer’s happy lot
O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint
Virgil's rosy view of the farming life
Elegies, Book 4.7
The last of Cynthia?
Odes Book 1.34
Awe for the Gods
Parcus deorum cultor et infrequens
A God makes his presence known