Catullus 10
A fashionable conversation
Varus me meus ad suos amores
Bright young things
Poem Tag: Gallus
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
Elegies, Book 1.3
The beauty of simplicity
Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo
Propertius's praise of natural beauty in women
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 679 - 724
Philemon and Baucis concluded
Interea totiens haustum cratera repleri
The story of Philemon and Baucis concluded