by Ovid
Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras
Phaethon's disastrous ride in the chariot of the Sun continues
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 178 - 216
Archives: Poems
Odes 1.23
Horace’s Chloe
Odes 1.34
A change of mind
Aeneid Book 2, lines 567-594
Helen in the darkness
by Virgil
Iamque adeo super unus eram, cum limina Vestae
Aeneas catches sight of Helen of Troy in the falling city
Odes1.10
A prayer to Mercury
Odes 2.5
Lalage is too young
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Caesar’s Centurion pledges loyalty
Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 301 - 332
Phaethon, concluded
by Ovid
Dixerat haec Telllus: neque enim tolerare vaporem
Jupiter's intervention finally brings Phaethon's disastrous chariot-ride to a close
Ode 1.14