by Homer
Ἀνδρομάχη δέ οἱ ἄγχι παρίστατο δάκρυ χέουσα
Don't take risks, begs Andromache
Iliad Book 6, lines 441 - 473
Archives: Poems
Metamorphoses Book 1, lines 466-76 and 525-67
Apollo and Daphne
Archilochus 7
Archilochus on endurance
by Archilochus
κήδεα μὲν στονόεντα, Περίκλεες, οὔτε τις ἀστῶν
Tough love from Archilochus on loss and mourning
Archilochus fragments 2, 3 5A and 6
Archilochus, a soldier-poet
Georgics Book 4, lines 531 - 558
Aristaeus’s bees
by Virgil
Nate, licet tristes animo deponere curas.
Aristaeus learns how to atone for his guilt and recover his bees
Odes 1.12
Augustus, master of the world
Odes Book 1.34
Awe for the Gods
Elegies, Book 1.4
Back off, Bassus!
by Propertius
Quid mihi tam multas laudando, Basse, puellas
Give up Cynthia for someon else? Never, Bassus!
Elegies, Book 1.5
Back off, Gallus!
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 213 - 234
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391