by Virgil
Praeterea tam sunt Arcturi sidera nobis
Farming by the stars
Georgics Book 1, lines 204 - 230
Archives: Poems
Odes 4.15
The final ode
Metamorphoses Book 6, lines 382 - 400
The flaying of Marsyas
Horace Odes Book 2. 14
The fleeting years slip by
Aeneid Book 7, Lines 511 - 528
The Fury Allecto blows the alarm
by Virgil
At saeva e speculis tempus dea nacta nocendi
The fury Allecto calls the Italian coutryfolk to arms against the Trojans
Aeneid Book 3, lines 231 - 267
The Harpy’s prophecy
Metamorphoses Book 12, lines 39 - 63
The House of Rumour
by Ovid
Orbe locus medio est inter terrasque fretumque
As the Trojan War becomes imminent, rumour is rife.
Iliad Book 1, lines 1-21
The Iliad begins
Aeneid Book 11, lines 539 - 566
The infant Camilla
Odyssey, Book 9, lines 536-564
The Ithacans’ fate is sealed
by Homer
Aeneid Book 6, lines 236 - 268
The journey to Hades begins
by Virgil
His actis propere exsequitur praecepta Sibyllae
Aeneas and the Sybil take the road for the underworld
Elegies, Book 4.8
The last of Cynthia!
by Propertius
disce, quid Esquilias hac nocte fugarit aquosas
Propertius and Cynthia's final reconciliation