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The Oxford Book Of Latin Verse Chosen by H.W. Garrod Fellow of Merton College. Table of Contents PREFACE INTRODUCTION

I II III

NVMA POMPILIVS (?)

1. Fragments of the Saliar Hymns

i ii iii

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

i ii iii iv

L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS

6. Fragments of the Odyssey

i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x

7. Dramatic Fragments

i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x

CN. NAEVIVS

8. Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum

i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix

9. Dramatic Fragments

i ii iii iv v vi

10. His Own Epitaph

T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS

11. His Own Epitaph

MARCIVS VATES

12. Precepts

i ii

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

i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x

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

i ii iii iv v vi

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

i ii 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

i ii 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

a b

86. To Lesbia, not to count Kisses

a b

87. Everlasting Love

a b

88. Woman's Words 89. Man's Ingratitude 90. To Quintius: A Supplication 91. Loving and Liking

a b

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

i ii

107. Epilogue to the Vergilian Catalepton

C. CILNIVS MAECENAS

108.

i ii

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

a b

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

i ii

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

i ii

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

i ii

208. Tragedy and Love Elegy 209. Love and War

i ii

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

i ii

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

i ii

268. Character of a Happy Life

i ii iii iv

269. Quintus Ovidius' Birthday 270. The Marriage of Pudens and Claudia 271. In Memoriam

i ii iii iv

272. 'The Ledean stars so famed for love Wondered at us from above.' 273. The Villa of Julius Martialis 274. Diadumenos 275. Earinos

i ii

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

i ii

285. Valedictory

ANONYMOUS

286. Epitaphs

i ii

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

i ii iii iv v vi

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

i ii

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

i ii iii

340. An Epitaph for his Father 341. In Memory of his Teacher, Nepotianus 342. Epitaphs of Heroes

i ii

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

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