Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Poem Tag: Cynthia
Odes 1.6
Horace’s limitations
Scriberis Vario fortis et hostium
Horace admits his limitations ... ?
De Bello Civile, Book 1, lines 125 - 157
Pompey the oak and Caesar the thunderbolt
Quis iustius induit arma
Lucan introduces the combatants at the beginning of his poem on the civil war
Metamorphoses, Book 2, lines 178 - 216
Phaethon, continued
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues
Odes 1.23
Horace’s Chloe
Vitas hinnuleo me similis, Chloe
Time to grow up, Chloe
De Bello Civile, Book 1, lines 213 - 234
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Fonte cadit modico, parvisque impellitur undis
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 301 - 332
Phaethon, concluded
Dixerat haec Telllus: neque enim tolerare vaporem
Jupiter's intervention finally brings Phaethon's disastrous chariot-ride to a close
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