by Ovid
ergo ubi caelicolae parvos tetigere penates
The generous hospitality of the poor
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 637 - 678
Poem Tag: Virgil
Odes 1.2
Rome: disaster and salvation
by Horace
Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae
Horace exalts Augustus, the saviour of Rome from civil war
Odes 1.17
The country is best
Odes 1.21
Diana and Apollo: a hymn
Odes 2.8
Don’t trust Barine
Elegies, Book 1.2
The beauty of simplicity
by Propertius
Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo
Propertius's praise of natural beauty in women
Metamorphoses Book 8, lines 679 - 724
Philemon and Baucis concluded
Odes Book 1.4