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Odes 4.2

Pindar and Augustus

by Horace

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Aeneid Book 2. lines 595 - 633

Venus speaks

by Virgil

Nate, quis indomitas tantus dolor excitat iras?

Aeneas's mother, Venus, advises her son

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Odes 1.35

Fortuna

by Horace

O diva, gratum quae regis Antium

A prayer for good fortune at a time of danger

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Ode 2.10

The Golden Mean

by Horace

Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum

The wise man sticks to the golden mean

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De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 213 - 234

Caesar crosses the Rubicon

by Lucan

Fonte cadit modico, parvisque impellitur undis

Caesar crosses the Rubicon

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Elegies, Book 1.12

A change of fortune

by Propertius

Quid mihi desidiae non cessas fingere crimen,

Propertius and the pains of separation

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Odes 2.18

Luxury versus the simple life

by Horace

Non ebur neque aureum

Horace and the follies of the rich

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Odes 1.25

Lydia’s tragedy

by Horace

Parcius iunctas quatiunt fenestras

The decline of a beauty

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Aeneid Book 5, lines 443-484

The boxers

by Virgil

Ostendit dextram insurgens Entellus, et alte

Boxers Entellus and Dares slug it out with the cestus

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