The Oxford Book of Latin Verse / From the earliest fragments to the end of the Vth Century A.D.
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- The Oxford Book Of Latin Verse
- Chosen by H.W. Garrod Fellow of Merton College.
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
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- NVMA POMPILIVS (?)
- 1. Fragments of the Saliar Hymns
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- THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD
- 2. Against Plague upon the Harvest
- ANONYMOUS
- 3. Charms
- i. Against the Gout
- ii. At the Meditrinalia
- 4. An Ancient Lullaby
- 5. Epitaphs of the Scipios
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- L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS
- 6. Fragments of the Odyssey
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- 7. Dramatic Fragments
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- CN. NAEVIVS
- 8. Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum
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- 9. Dramatic Fragments
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- 10. His Own Epitaph
- T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS
- 11. His Own Epitaph
- MARCIVS VATES
- 12. Precepts
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- 13. Vaticinium
- Q. ENNIVS
- 14. The Vision of Ilia
- 15. Romulus and Remus
- 16. The Speech of Pyrrhus
- 17. Character of a Friend of Servilius[9]
- 18. M. Cornelius Cethegus
- 19. Caelius resists the Onset of the Istri
- 20. Toga Cedit Armis
- 21. Lesser Fragments of the Annals
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- 22. Alcmaeon
- 23. Andromache
- 24. Cassandra
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- 26. Telamon
- 27. Telamon
- 28. Molestum Otium
- 29. Medeae Nutrix
- 30. From the Iphigenia
- 31. Epitaph for Scipio Africanus
- 32. The Same
- 33. Scipio to Ennius
- 34. His own Epitaph
- M. PACVVIVS
- 35. Fortune
- 36. The Greeks set sail from Troy
- 37. Genitabile Caelum
- 38. Speech
- 39. Womanish Tears
- 40. His Own Epitaph
- L. ACCIVS
- 41. Tarquin's Dream
- 42. The Argo seen by a Shepherd who has never seen a Ship
- 43. Shorter Fragments
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- ANONYMOUS
- 44. Epitaph of Claudia
- POMPILIVS
- 45. His Poetical Lineage
- VALERIVS AEDITVVS
- 46. The Lamp of Love
- Q. LVTATIVS CATVLVS
- 47. Lost: A Heart
- 48. The Rising Sun of Roscius
- PORCIVS LICINVS
- 49. Ignis Homo Est
- 50. Terence corrupted by his Patrons
- LAEVIVS
- 51. From the Erotopaegnia
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- M. FVRIVS BIBACVLVS
- 52. The Garden of Valerius Cato
- 53. The Reward of the Scholar
- ORACVLVM
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- M. TVLLIVS CICERO
- 55. De Consulatu Suo
- 56. Marius
- 57. From the Odyssey
- 58. From Sophocles
- 59. From Euripides
- C. HELVIVS CINNA
- 60. An Astronomical Poem written upon Mallow Leaves
- M. TVLLIVS LAVREA
- 61. Magic Waters in the Garden of Cicero's Villa
- Q. TVLLIVS CICERO
- 62. Astronomical Fragment
- C. IVLIVS CAESAR
- 63. Terence
- C. LICINIVS MACER CALVVS
- 64. Fragments of Epithalamia
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- 65. The Death of Quintilia
- T. LVCRETIVS CARVS
- 66. Exordium
- 67. The Rule of Reason
- 68. Magna Mater
- 69. Epicurus and the Fear of Death
- 70. The Powers of Hell
- 71. The World's Conquerors
- 72. Primitive Man
- 73. Origin of Belief in God
- C. VALERIVS CATVLLVS
- 74. A Hymn to Diana
- 75. Hymen, O Hymenaee
- 76. Attis
- 77. Iunia weds with Manlius
- 78. To Cornelius Nepos: A Dedication
- 79. To Veranius: A Welcome Home
- 80. A Letter to Caecilius
- 81. Farewell to Bithynia
- 82. Home-coming to Sirmio
- 83. The tender Love of Acme and Septimius
- 84. 'Φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν'
- 85. Lesbia's Sparrow
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- 86. To Lesbia, not to count Kisses
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- 87. Everlasting Love
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- 88. Woman's Words
- 89. Man's Ingratitude
- 90. To Quintius: A Supplication
- 91. Loving and Liking
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- 92. Miser Catulle
- 93. Odi et Amo
- 94. Num te leaena...?
- 95. Nuntium Remittit Cynthiae
- 96. To Alfenus, who betrayed him
- 97. Vitam puriter egi
- 98. To Manlius: written in affliction
- 99. The Friendship of Allius
- 100. At the Tomb of his Brother
- 101. To Calvus: on the Death of Quintilia
- 102. Nothing to do
- 103. He craves Cornificius' Pity
- 104. To any Readers he may have
- ANONYMOUS
- 105. The Tombs of the Great
- L. VARIVS
- 106. Fragments of the De Morte
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- 107. Epilogue to the Vergilian Catalepton
- C. CILNIVS MAECENAS
- 108.
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- P. VERGILIVS MARO
- 109. 'Is this the Man that made the Earth to tremble'
- 110. 'Hence, all ye vain Delights'
- 111. 'Unto you a child is born'
- 112. Pharmaceutria
- 113. 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread'
- 114. Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?
- 115. Italia, io te saluto
- 116. 'God made the country but man made the town'
- 117. Exordium
- 118. Orpheus and Eurydice
- 119. The Aeneid
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- Q. HORATIVS FLACCVS
- 120. Romanae fidicen lyrae
- 121. Song Makes Immortal
- 122. Spring: An Invitation to Vergil
- 123. Winter
- 124. To Venus
- 125. 'What slender youth...'
- 126. Amoris Integratio
- 127. Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait
- 128. The Latter End of Lyce
- 129. He Abandons the Lists of Love
- 130. Rursus bella moues?
- 131. A Bachelor Festival
- 132. A Retreat for Old Age
- 133. Welcome home to Pompeius
- 134. Eheu fugaces
- 135. An Invitation to Maecenas
- 136. Pia Testa
- 137. High and Low, Rich and Poor
- 138. The Strenuous Life
- 139. The Path of the Just
- 140. Pollio
- 141. Regulus
- 142. Cleopatra
- 143. Augustus returns in triumph
- 144. Deliverance from Death
- 145. Bandusia
- 146. Mens Aequa
- 147. Pindar
- 148. The Daughters of Danaus
- 149. To Vergil: on the Death of Quintilius
- 150. Beatus unicis Sabinis
- 151. A Hard Winter
- 152. Two Poems on the Return of Spring
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- 153. Horace's Monument
- ALBIVS TIBVLLVS
- 154. Love in the Valley
- 155. Lines Written in Sickness at Corcyra
- 156. A Shattered Dream of Love
- 157. The Blessings of Peace
- 158. A Rural Festival
- 159. In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles
- 160. He appeals to Nemesis by the Memory of her dead Sister
- DOMITIVS MARSVS
- 161. On the Death, in the same year, of Vergil and Tibullus
- SEXTVS PROPERTIVS
- 162. His Birthplace
- 163. His Place in Poetry
- 164. The Power of Song
- 165. The first Onset of Love
- 166. Portrait of the Love God
- 167. To one who despised Love, and is now enslaved
- 168. To the same: Poets of Epic and Poets of Love
- 169. Cynthia's Birthday
- 170. Cynthia's Sickness
- 171. A Dream about Cynthia
- 172. Warning to a Rival
- 173. To Cynthia on her Kindness to his Rival
- 174. Cynthia is stolen from him
- 175. Athens shall cure him of his Love
- 176. Cynthia will one day be but Dust and Ashes
- 177. Cynthia Dead
- 178. Hylas
- 179. Cornelia's Plea
- 180. The Triumphs of Augustus in the East
- 181. Elegy on the Death of Marcellus
- 182. The Lover alone knows in what Hour Death shall come to him
- 183. 'When I die, Cynthia....'
- LYGDAMVS
- 184. He dreams that Neaera is false to him
- 185. From a Sickbed
- SVLPICIA
- 186. Cerinthus' Birthday
- 187. To Phoebus: A Prayer in Sickness
- 188. In Sickness: to Cerinthus
- ANONYMOUS
- 189. Foul Rumour
- PANEGYRISTAE MESSALLAE
- 190. Mighty in Peace as Mighty in Arms
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- ANONYMOUS
- 191. Epitaph of Heluia Prima
- CORNELIVS SEVERVS
- 192. The Death of Cicero
- ANONYMOUS
- 193. Post Mortem Nulla Voluptas
- 194. Epicedion Drusi
- M. MANILIVS
- 195. The Science of Nature
- 196. The Milky Way
- 197. Comets
- 198. The Theme of the Astrological Poet
- 199. The Rarity of True Friendship
- 200. Line upon Line
- 201. A New Poetry
- 202. The Rule of Fate
- 203. Macrocosm and Microcosm
- 204. Andromeda
- ALBINOVANVS PEDO
- 205. 'Over the Seas our Galleys went
- P. OVIDIVS NASO
- 206. His Autobiography
- 207. Epic and Love Elegy
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- 208. Tragedy and Love Elegy
- 209. Love and War
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- 210. The Captive of Love
- 211. Love and Song
- 212. Cruel Dawn
- 213. The Loves of Rivers
- 214. Farewell to Love-poetry
- 215. The Dead Parrot
- 216. Phyllis to Demophoon
- 217. Elegy on the Death of Tibullus
- 218. A Friend in Need
- 219. To Maximus: on the Death of Celsus
- 220. Lines Written in Sickness
- 221. The Immortality of Poetry
- ANONYMOUS
- 222. Exordium to a Poem on the Sea
- TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR GERMANICVS
- 223. From the Golden to the Iron Age
- 224. At the Tomb of Hector
- C. IVLIVS PHAEDRVS
- 225. Socrates
- 226. Opportunity
- 227. Epilogue
- ANONYMOUS
- 228. Poetry and Science
- 229. Precatio Terrae
- 230. Epitaph of Homonoea and Atimetus
- 231. The Complaint of the Garden God
- L. ANNAEVS SENECA
- 232. Time
- 233. Corsica
- 234. Athens
- 235. Britain
- 236. On the Death of Crispus
- 237. The Only Immortality
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- 238. The Last Pilgrimage
- 239. Fatal Beauty
- 240. Death has no Terror
- 241. Hymeneal
- 242. The Lot of Kings
- 243. Mutability
- 244. The Saying of Orpheus
- L. IVNIVS MODERATVS COLVMELLA
- 245. The Flowery Spring
- ANONYMOUS
- 246. Redeunt Saturnia Regna
- C. CALPVRNIVS SICVLVS
- 247. A Singing Match
- M. ANNAEVS LVCANVS (?)
- 248. His Own Epitaph
- ANONYMOUS
- 249. Laus Pisonis
- PETRONIVS ARBITER
- 250. Thorns and Roses
- 251. 'Come to me in my dreams'
- 252. True Nobility
- 253. Contrasts
- 254. Fire and Ice
- L. VERGINIVS RVFVS
- 255. His Own Epitaph
- P. PAPINIVS STATIVS
- 256. Lucan's Birthday
- 257. On the Death of a Favourite Parrot
- 258. The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla
- 259. A Villa at Tibur
- 260. To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father
- 261. 'He hath outsoared the shadow of our night'
- 262. To Sleep
- M. VALERIVS MARTIALIS
- 263. Bilbilis
- 264. He sends his Book to Caesius
- 265. To Silius Italicus
- 266. Life not Legends
- 267. To Valerius Flaccus
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- 268. Character of a Happy Life
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- 269. Quintus Ovidius' Birthday
- 270. The Marriage of Pudens and Claudia
- 271. In Memoriam
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- 272. 'The Ledean stars so famed for love Wondered at us from above.'
- 273. The Villa of Julius Martialis
- 274. Diadumenos
- 275. Earinos
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- 276. To a Schoolmaster
- 277. Long Life and Strong Life
- 278. The Conditions of Friendship
- 279. Domestic Life
- 280. Saturnalia
- 281. To the Rhine to send Trajan safe home
- 282. A purer Sappho
- 283. Posthumous Fame
- 284. Contemporary Fame
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- 285. Valedictory
- ANONYMOUS
- 286. Epitaphs
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- P. AELIVS HADRIANVS IMPERATOR
- 287. To his Soul
- ANONYMOUS
- 288. Epitaph of M. Pomponius Bassulus
- 289. Epitaph of Serenus
- 290. Epitaph of Ursus
- ANNIVS FLORVS
- 291. 'Tongues I'll hang on every tree.'
- 292. Apollo and Bacchus
- 293. Bacchus
- 294. Women
- 295. Evil Communications
- 296. A Study in Antithesis
- 297. French and English
- 298. The Rarity of Poets and their Patrons
- C. SVLPICIVS APOLLINARIS
- 299. Vergil's Aeneid
- 300. Epitaph of Seneca
- ANONYMOUS
- 301. Viue
- P. LICINIVS GALLIENVS IMPERATOR
- 302. Ludite
- M. AVRELIVS OLVMPIVS NEMESIANVS
- 303. Exordium to a Poem on Hunting
- 304. Pan
- ANONYMOUS
- 305. Epitaph on M.P. Flavius Postumius Varus
- 306. To the Sea
- 307. Boating Song
- 308. 'Margaret'
- CLAVDIVS
- 309. To the Moon
- L. CAELIVS LACTANTIVS FIRMIANVS
- 310. The Phoenix
- CATO
- 311. Moral Distichs
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- REPOSIANVS
- 312. The Bridal Bower of Mars and Venus
- PENTADIVS
- 313. Narcissus
- 314. Woman
- ANONYMOUS
- 315. Epitaph on the Actor Vitalis
- TIBERIANVS
- 316. A Woodland Scene
- 317. Gold
- 318. 'Too Adventurous Wings'
- 319. God
- 320. Peruigilium Veneris
- ANONYMOUS
- 321. Epitaph of a Charioteer
- ALCIMIVS
- 322. Vergil and Homer
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- 323. A Present from Lesbia
- 324. Eloquent Eyes
- D. MAGNVS AVSONIVS
- 325. Dedication
- 326. To Tetradius: A Remonstrance
- 327. A Letter to Paulinus
- 328. To his Wife
- 329. Nemesis
- 330. One-sided Love
- 331. The Spartan's Shield
- 332. In Commendation of his Book
- 333. To his Book
- 334. Myro's Heifer
- 335. A Picture of Echo
- 336. The Ideal Mistress
- 337. Narcissus
- 338. Dedication of a Mirror
- 339. The Graves of a Household
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- 340. An Epitaph for his Father
- 341. In Memory of his Teacher, Nepotianus
- 342. Epitaphs of Heroes
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- 343. In Tumulo Hominis Felicis
- 344. To his Villa
- 345. The Martyrdom of Cupid
- 346. Valedictory
- MODESTINVS
- 347. Another Martyrdom of Cupid
- PSEVDO-AVSONIVS
- 348. 'Gather ye Rosebuds'
- 349. For a Statue of Dido
- 350. A Pretty Boy
- 351. Galla
- AVIENVS
- 352. Prologue to the Aratea
- ANONYMOUS
- 353. Epitaph of M. Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Paulina his Wife
- ASMENIVS
- 354. Thoughts in a Garden
- THE ASMENIDAE
- I ASCLEPIADIVS
- 355. Fortune
- II PALLADIVS 356. Orpheus
- III 357. Vergil Distichs
- (a) Palladius.
- (b) Vomanius.
- (c) Maximinus.
- 358. Vergil Quatrains
- (a) Asclepiadius.
- (b) Vitalis.
- (c) Euphorbius.
- ANONYMOUS
- 359. Carpe Diem
- 360. Epithalamium
- 361. The Grave of Nymphius
- 362. Roses and Thorns
- SVLPICIVS LVPERCVS SERVASIVS IVNIOR
- 363. The Work of Time
- 364. On Avarice
- CLAVDIVS CLAVDIANVS
- 365. An Eagle of Roman Song
- 366. A Council of War—and War
- 367. The Marriage of Honorius and Maria
- 368. The Recluse
- 369. Epistle to Serena
- 370. Love in a Cottage
- AVIANVS
- 371. The Ass in the Lion's Skin
- 372. The Peacock and the Crane
- RVTILIVS CLAVDIVS NAMATIANVS
- 373. Rome
- C. SOLLIVS MODESTVS APOLLINARIS SIDONIVS
- 374. For the Marriage of Polemius and Araneola
- 375. A Gallic Baiae
- 376. An Invitation
- 377. Epitaph of Filimatia
- FLAVIVS FELIX
- 378. To his Patron
- LVXORIVS
- 379. To his Readers
- 380. The Garden of Eugetus
- 381. A Rose with a hundred Petals
- 382. A Water Urn with a Figure of Cupid
- 383. His Book's proper Place
- PHOCAS
- 384. Poetry and Time
- TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS
- NOTE UPON THE SATURNIAN METRE
- GLOSSARY OF OLD LATIN
- INDEX OF AUTHORS AND PASSAGES
- INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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