by Virgil
nunc age, naturas apibus quas Iuppiter ipse
Bees and their city state
Georgics Book 4, lines 149 - 190
Poem Tag: Latinpoetryrecited
Catullus 85
Love and hate
Tibullus 1.1, lines 53 - 78
Tibullus’s appeal to Delia
Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
by Virgil
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 150 - 177
Phaethon
by Ovid
Occupat ille levem juvenali corpore currum
Phaethon's ride in the chariot of the Sun begins.
Odes 1.6
Horace’s limitations
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 125 - 157
Pompey the oak and Caesar the thunderbolt
by Lucan
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
by Ovid
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues
