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The Oxford Book of Latin Verse From the earliest fragments to the end of the Vth Century A.D.

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

III

NVMA POMPILIVS (?)

1. Fragments of the Saliar Hymns

iii

THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD

2. Against Plague upon the Harvest

ANONYMOUS

3. Charms

i. Against the Gout

ii. At the Meditrinalia

i. Against the Gout

ii. At the Meditrinalia

4. An Ancient Lullaby

5. Epitaphs of the Scipios

iii

L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS

6. Fragments of the Odyssey

iii

vii

viii

iii

vii

viii

7. Dramatic Fragments

iii

vii

viii

iii

vii

viii

CN. NAEVIVS

8. Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum

iii

vii

viii

iii

vii

viii

9. Dramatic Fragments

iii

10. His Own Epitaph

T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS

11. His Own Epitaph

MARCIVS VATES

12. Precepts

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

iii

vii

viii

iii

vii

viii

22. Alcmaeon

23. Andromache

24. Cassandra

25. ii

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

iii

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

iii

M. FVRIVS BIBACVLVS

52. The Garden of Valerius Cato

53. The Reward of the Scholar

ORACVLVM

54.

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

iii

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

86. To Lesbia, not to count Kisses

87. Everlasting Love

88. Woman's Words

89. Man's Ingratitude

90. To Quintius: A Supplication

91. Loving and Liking

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

107. Epilogue to the Vergilian Catalepton

C. CILNIVS MAECENAS

108.

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

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

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

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

208. Tragedy and Love Elegy

209. Love and War

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

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

268. Character of a Happy Life

iii

269. Quintus Ovidius' Birthday

270. The Marriage of Pudens and Claudia

271. In Memoriam

iii

272. 'The Ledean stars so famed for love Wondered at us from above.'

273. The Villa of Julius Martialis

274. Diadumenos

275. Earinos

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

285. Valedictory

ANONYMOUS

286. Epitaphs

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

iii

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

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

iii

340. An Epitaph for his Father

341. In Memory of his Teacher, Nepotianus

342. Epitaphs of Heroes

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

ASCLEPIADIVS

355. Fortune

PALLADIVS

356. Orpheus

III

357. Vergil Distichs

(a) Palladius.

(b) Vomanius.

(a) Palladius.

(b) Vomanius.

358. Vergil Quatrains

(a) Asclepiadius.

(b) Vitalis.

(a) Asclepiadius.

(b) Vitalis.

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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