De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Caesar’s Centurion pledges loyalty
Summi tunc munera pili
Lessons in loyalty and daring from an old campaigner
Poem Tag: Boethius
Propertius Elegies, Book 1 no. 12
A change of fortune
Quid mihi desidiae non cessas fingere crimen,
Propertius and the pains of separation
Catullus 10
A fashionable conversation
Varus me meus ad suos amores
Bright young things
Odes, Book 4, Ode 1
Horace returns to lyric poetry
Intermissa, Venus, diu
Love at fifty
Odes 1.16
Lovely mother, lovelier daughter
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior
Horace recants
Metamorphoses Book 12, lines 39 - 63
The House of Rumour
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
Sic te diva potens Cypri
Horace prays for a safe voyage for Virgil
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 637 - 678
Philemon and Baucis
ergo ubi caelicolae parvos tetigere penates
The generous hospitality of the poor
Odes 2.8
Don’t trust Barine
Ulla si iuris tibi peierati
Barine, who gets away with anything