PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
NVMA POMPILIVS (?)
Fragments of the Saliar Hymns
THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD
Against Plague upon the Harvest
ANONYMOUS
Charms
An Ancient Lullaby
Epitaphs of the Scipios
L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS
Fragments of the Odyssey
Dramatic Fragments
CN. NAEVIVS
Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum
Dramatic Fragments
His Own Epitaph
T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS
His Own Epitaph
MARCIVS VATES
Precepts
Vaticinium
Q. ENNIVS
The Vision of Ilia
Romulus and Remus
The Speech of Pyrrhus
Character of a Friend of Servilius9
M. Cornelius Cethegus
Caelius resists the Onset of the Istri
Toga Cedit Armis
Lesser Fragments of the Annals
Alcmaeon
Andromache
Cassandra
Telamon
Telamon
Molestum Otium
Medeae Nutrix
From the Iphigenia
Epitaph for Scipio Africanus
The Same
Scipio to Ennius
His own Epitaph
M. PACVVIVS
Fortune
The Greeks set sail from Troy
Genitabile Caelum
Speech
Womanish Tears
His Own Epitaph
L. ACCIVS
Tarquin's Dream
The Argo seen by a Shepherd who has never seen a Ship
Shorter Fragments
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph of Claudia
POMPILIVS
His Poetical Lineage
VALERIVS AEDITVVS
The Lamp of Love
Q. LVTATIVS CATVLVS
Lost: A Heart
The Rising Sun of Roscius
PORCIVS LICINVS
Ignis Homo Est
Terence corrupted by his Patrons
LAEVIVS
From the Erotopaegnia
M. FVRIVS BIBACVLVS
The Garden of Valerius Cato
The Reward of the Scholar
ORACVLVM
M. TVLLIVS CICERO
De Consulatu Suo
Marius
From the Odyssey
From Sophocles
From Euripides
C. HELVIVS CINNA
An Astronomical Poem written upon Mallow Leaves
M. TVLLIVS LAVREA
Magic Waters in the Garden of Cicero's Villa
Q. TVLLIVS CICERO
Astronomical Fragment
C. IVLIVS CAESAR
Terence
C. LICINIVS MACER CALVVS
Fragments of Epithalamia
The Death of Quintilia
T. LVCRETIVS CARVS
Exordium
The Rule of Reason
Magna Mater
Epicurus and the Fear of Death
The Powers of Hell
The World's Conquerors
Primitive Man
Origin of Belief in God
C. VALERIVS CATVLLVS
A Hymn to Diana
Hymen, O Hymenaee
Attis
Iunia weds with Manlius
To Cornelius Nepos: A Dedication
To Veranius: A Welcome Home
A Letter to Caecilius
Farewell to Bithynia
Home-coming to Sirmio
The tender Love of Acme and Septimius
'Φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν'
Lesbia's Sparrow
To Lesbia, not to count Kisses
Everlasting Love
Woman's Words
Man's Ingratitude
To Quintius: A Supplication
Loving and Liking
Miser Catulle
Odi et Amo
Num te leaena...?
Nuntium Remittit Cynthiae
To Alfenus, who betrayed him
Vitam puriter egi
To Manlius: written in affliction
The Friendship of Allius
At the Tomb of his Brother
To Calvus: on the Death of Quintilia
Nothing to do
He craves Cornificius' Pity
To any Readers he may have
ANONYMOUS
The Tombs of the Great
L. VARIVS
Fragments of the De Morte
Epilogue to the Vergilian Catalepton
C. CILNIVS MAECENAS
P. VERGILIVS MARO
'Is this the Man that made the Earth to tremble'
'Hence, all ye vain Delights'
'Unto you a child is born'
Pharmaceutria
'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread'
Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?
Italia, io te saluto
'God made the country but man made the town'
Exordium
Orpheus and Eurydice
The Aeneid
Q. HORATIVS FLACCVS
Romanae fidicen lyrae
Song Makes Immortal
Spring: An Invitation to Vergil
Winter
To Venus
'What slender youth...'
Amoris Integratio
Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait
The Latter End of Lyce
He Abandons the Lists of Love
Rursus bella moues?
A Bachelor Festival
A Retreat for Old Age
Welcome home to Pompeius
Eheu fugaces
An Invitation to Maecenas
Pia Testa
High and Low, Rich and Poor
The Strenuous Life
The Path of the Just
Pollio
Regulus
Cleopatra
Augustus returns in triumph
Deliverance from Death
Bandusia
Mens Aequa
Pindar
The Daughters of Danaus
To Vergil: on the Death of Quintilius
Beatus unicis Sabinis
A Hard Winter
Two Poems on the Return of Spring
Horace's Monument
ALBIVS TIBVLLVS
Love in the Valley
Lines Written in Sickness at Corcyra
A Shattered Dream of Love
The Blessings of Peace
A Rural Festival
In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles
He appeals to Nemesis by the Memory of her dead Sister
DOMITIVS MARSVS
On the Death, in the same year, of Vergil and Tibullus
SEXTVS PROPERTIVS
His Birthplace
His Place in Poetry
The Power of Song
The first Onset of Love
Portrait of the Love God
To one who despised Love, and is now enslaved
To the same: Poets of Epic and Poets of Love
Cynthia's Birthday
Cynthia's Sickness
A Dream about Cynthia
Warning to a Rival
To Cynthia on her Kindness to his Rival
Cynthia is stolen from him
Athens shall cure him of his Love
Cynthia will one day be but Dust and Ashes
Cynthia Dead
Hylas
Cornelia's Plea
The Triumphs of Augustus in the East
Elegy on the Death of Marcellus
The Lover alone knows in what Hour Death shall come to him
'When I die, Cynthia....'
LYGDAMVS
He dreams that Neaera is false to him
From a Sickbed
SVLPICIA
Cerinthus' Birthday
To Phoebus: A Prayer in Sickness
In Sickness: to Cerinthus
ANONYMOUS
Foul Rumour
PANEGYRISTAE MESSALLAE
Mighty in Peace as Mighty in Arms
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph of Heluia Prima
CORNELIVS SEVERVS
The Death of Cicero
ANONYMOUS
Post Mortem Nulla Voluptas
Epicedion Drusi
M. MANILIVS
The Science of Nature
The Milky Way
Comets
The Theme of the Astrological Poet
The Rarity of True Friendship
Line upon Line
A New Poetry
The Rule of Fate
Macrocosm and Microcosm
Andromeda
ALBINOVANVS PEDO
'Over the Seas our Galleys went
P. OVIDIVS NASO
His Autobiography
Epic and Love Elegy
Tragedy and Love Elegy
Love and War
The Captive of Love
Love and Song
Cruel Dawn
The Loves of Rivers
Farewell to Love-poetry
The Dead Parrot
Phyllis to Demophoon
Elegy on the Death of Tibullus
A Friend in Need
To Maximus: on the Death of Celsus
Lines Written in Sickness
The Immortality of Poetry
ANONYMOUS
Exordium to a Poem on the Sea
TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR GERMANICVS
From the Golden to the Iron Age
At the Tomb of Hector
C. IVLIVS PHAEDRVS
Socrates
Opportunity
Epilogue
ANONYMOUS
Poetry and Science
Precatio Terrae
Epitaph of Homonoea and Atimetus
The Complaint of the Garden God
L. ANNAEVS SENECA
Time
Corsica
Athens
Britain
On the Death of Crispus
The Only Immortality
The Last Pilgrimage
Fatal Beauty
Death has no Terror
Hymeneal
The Lot of Kings
Mutability
The Saying of Orpheus
L. IVNIVS MODERATVS COLVMELLA
The Flowery Spring
ANONYMOUS
Redeunt Saturnia Regna
C. CALPVRNIVS SICVLVS
A Singing Match
M. ANNAEVS LVCANVS (?)
His Own Epitaph
ANONYMOUS
Laus Pisonis
PETRONIVS ARBITER
Thorns and Roses
'Come to me in my dreams'
True Nobility
Contrasts
Fire and Ice
L. VERGINIVS RVFVS
His Own Epitaph
P. PAPINIVS STATIVS
Lucan's Birthday
On the Death of a Favourite Parrot
The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla
A Villa at Tibur
To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father
'He hath outsoared the shadow of our night'
To Sleep
M. VALERIVS MARTIALIS
Bilbilis
He sends his Book to Caesius
To Silius Italicus
Life not Legends
To Valerius Flaccus
Character of a Happy Life
Quintus Ovidius' Birthday
The Marriage of Pudens and Claudia
In Memoriam
'The Ledean stars so famed for love Wondered at us from above.'
The Villa of Julius Martialis
Diadumenos
Earinos
To a Schoolmaster
Long Life and Strong Life
The Conditions of Friendship
Domestic Life
Saturnalia
To the Rhine to send Trajan safe home
A purer Sappho
Posthumous Fame
Contemporary Fame
Valedictory
ANONYMOUS
Epitaphs
P. AELIVS HADRIANVS IMPERATOR
To his Soul
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph of M. Pomponius Bassulus
Epitaph of Serenus
Epitaph of Ursus
ANNIVS FLORVS
'Tongues I'll hang on every tree.'
Apollo and Bacchus
Bacchus
Women
Evil Communications
A Study in Antithesis
French and English
The Rarity of Poets and their Patrons
C. SVLPICIVS APOLLINARIS
Vergil's Aeneid
Epitaph of Seneca
ANONYMOUS
Viue
P. LICINIVS GALLIENVS IMPERATOR
Ludite
M. AVRELIVS OLVMPIVS NEMESIANVS
Exordium to a Poem on Hunting
Pan
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph on M.P. Flavius Postumius Varus
To the Sea
Boating Song
'Margaret'
CLAVDIVS
To the Moon
L. CAELIVS LACTANTIVS FIRMIANVS
The Phoenix
CATO
Moral Distichs
REPOSIANVS
The Bridal Bower of Mars and Venus
PENTADIVS
Narcissus
Woman
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph on the Actor Vitalis
TIBERIANVS
A Woodland Scene
Gold
'Too Adventurous Wings'
God
Peruigilium Veneris
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph of a Charioteer
ALCIMIVS
Vergil and Homer
A Present from Lesbia
Eloquent Eyes
D. MAGNVS AVSONIVS
Dedication
To Tetradius: A Remonstrance
A Letter to Paulinus
To his Wife
Nemesis
One-sided Love
The Spartan's Shield
In Commendation of his Book
To his Book
Myro's Heifer
A Picture of Echo
The Ideal Mistress
Narcissus
Dedication of a Mirror
The Graves of a Household
An Epitaph for his Father
In Memory of his Teacher, Nepotianus
Epitaphs of Heroes
In Tumulo Hominis Felicis
To his Villa
The Martyrdom of Cupid
Valedictory
MODESTINVS
Another Martyrdom of Cupid
PSEVDO-AVSONIVS
'Gather ye Rosebuds'
For a Statue of Dido
A Pretty Boy
Galla
AVIENVS
Prologue to the Aratea
ANONYMOUS
Epitaph of M. Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Paulina his Wife
ASMENIVS
Thoughts in a Garden
THE ASMENIDAE
I. ASCLEPIADIVS
Fortune
II. PALLADIVS
Orpheus
III
Vergil Distichs
IV
Vergil Quatrains
ANONYMOUS
Carpe Diem
Epithalamium
The Grave of Nymphius
Roses and Thorns
SVLPICIVS LVPERCVS SERVASIVS IVNIOR
The Work of Time
On Avarice
CLAVDIVS CLAVDIANVS
An Eagle of Roman Song
A Council of War—and War
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria
The Recluse
Epistle to Serena
Love in a Cottage
AVIANVS
The Ass in the Lion's Skin
The Peacock and the Crane
RVTILIVS CLAVDIVS NAMATIANVS
Rome
C. SOLLIVS MODESTVS APOLLINARIS SIDONIVS
For the Marriage of Polemius and Araneola
A Gallic Baiae
An Invitation
Epitaph of Filimatia
FLAVIVS FELIX
To his Patron
LVXORIVS
To his Readers
The Garden of Eugetus
A Rose with a hundred Petals
A Water Urn with a Figure of Cupid
His Book's proper Place
PHOCAS
Poetry and Time
TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS
NOTE UPON THE SATURNIAN METRE
GLOSSARY OF OLD LATIN
