Georgic 1, lines 351 - 392
Signs of bad weather
Atque haec ut certis possemus discere signis
Weather-wisdom from the ancient world
Poem Tag: Propertius
Elegies Book 1.5
Back off, Gallus!
Invide, tu tandem voces compesce molestas
Propertius deters a riveal
Metamorphoses Book 8, Lines 780 - 816
Ceres takes revenge
Attonitae dryades damno nemorumque suoque
Fames, the personification of famine and hunger
Georgics Book 1, lines 461 - 514
Catastrophe for Rome?
Denique quid vesper serus vehat
Only Augustus can save Rome
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