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Odes 3.6

New temples, new morals

Delicta Maiorum inmeritus lues

Renewal in the city, decline in its morals

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Georgics Book 3, lines 6 - 22 and 40 - 48

Virgil’s poetic temple to Caesar

Cui non dictus Hylas puer et Latonia Delos

Virgil looks forward to the Aeneid

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Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 150 - 177

Phaethon

Occupat ille levem juvenali corpore currum

Phaethon's ride in the chariot of the Sun begins.

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Odes 1.6

Horace’s limitations

Scriberis Vario fortis et hostium

Horace admits his limitations ... ?

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Metamorphoses Book 6, lines 382 - 400

The flaying of Marsyas

Sic ubi nescio quis Lycia de gente virorum

A terrible punishment for a musical offence

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Aeneid Book 2, lines 506-558

The death of Priam

Forsitan et Priami fuerint quae fata requiris

Priam meets his death

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Odes 1.8

A Farewell to arms

Lydia dic per omnes

What is distracting this young soldier?

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Odes 2.4

Love a slave-girl? Oh, Xanthias!

Ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori

Of course it's OK to fall in love with a slave(!)

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Odes 3.10

Locked out

Extremum Tanain si biberes, Lyce

Don't leave me out in the cold and rain, Lyce!

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