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BkI:XXVII Entanglement
BkI:XXVII Entanglement
To fight with wine-cups intended for pleasure
only suits Thracians: forget those barbarous
games, and keep modest Bacchus …
BkI:XXV A Prophecy of Age
BkI:XXV A Prophecy of Age
Now the young men come less often, violently
beating your shutters, with blow after blow, or
stealing away your sleep, …
BkI:XXIV A Lament For Quintilius
BkI:XXIV A Lament For Quintilius
What limit, or restraint, should we show at the loss
of so dear a life? Melpomene, teach me, Muse,
a song of mou…
BkI:XXII Singing of Lalage (Integer Vitae)
BkI:XXII Singing of Lalage (Integer Vitae)
The man who is pure of life, and free of sin,
has no need, dear Fuscus, for Moorish javelins,
nor a bo…
BkI:XX To Maecenas
BkI:XX To Maecenas
Come and drink with me, rough Sabine in cheap cups,
yet wine that I sealed myself, and laid up
in a Grecian jar, when you dear…
BkI:XVII The Delights of the Country
BkI:XVII The Delights of the Country
Swift Faunus, the god, will quite often exchange
Arcady for my sweet Mount Lucretilis,
and while he stays he…
BkI:XV Nereus’ Prophecy of Troy
BkI:XV Nereus’ Prophecy of Troy
While Paris, the traitorous shepherd, her guest,
bore Helen over the waves, in a ship from Troy,
Nereus, the sea-…
BkI:XIV The Ship of State
BkI:XIV The Ship of State
O ship the fresh tide carries back to sea again.
Where are you going! Quickly, run for harbour.
Can’t you see how your …
BkI:XII Praising Augustus
BkI:XII Praising Augustus
What god, man, or hero do you choose to praise
on the high pitched flute or the lyre, Clio?
Whose name will it be that …
BkI:X To Mercury
BkI:X To Mercury
Mercury, eloquent grandson of Atlas,
I’ll sing of you, who wise with your training, shaped
the uncivilised ways of our new-born …
BkI:V Treacherous Girl
BkI:V Treacherous Girl
What slender boy, Pyrrha, drowned in liquid perfume,
urges you on, there, among showers of roses,
deep down in some pleasa…
BkI:VII Tibur
BkI:VII Tibur
Let others sing in praise of Rhodes, or Mytilene,
or Ephesus, or Corinth on the Isthmus,
or Thebes that’s known for Bacchus, or Apo…
BkI:II To Augustus
BkI:II To Augustus
The Father’s sent enough dread hail
and snow to earth already, striking
sacred hills with fiery hand,
to scare the cit…
BkI:IV Spring
BkI:IV Spring
Fierce winter slackens its grip: it’s spring and the west wind’s sweet change:
the ropes are hauling dry hulls towards the shore,
T…
The Odyssey: Book 9
The Odyssey: Book 9
And Ulysses answered, "King Alcinous, it is a good thing to hear a
bard with such a divine voice as this man has. There is nothing be…
BkI:I The Dedication: To Maecenas
BkI:I The Dedication: To Maecenas
Maecenas, descendant of royal ancestors,
O my protector, and my sweet glory,
some are delighted by showers of d…
The Odyssey: Book 7
The Odyssey: Book 7
Thus, then, did Ulysses wait and pray; but the girl drove on to
the town. When she reached her father's house she drew up at the
The Odyssey: Book 5
The Odyssey: Book 5
And now, as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus- harbinger of
light alike to mortals and immortals- the gods met in council and …
The Odyssey: Book 23
The Odyssey: Book 23
Euryclea now went upstairs laughing to tell her mistress that her
dear husband had come home. Her aged knees became young again and …
The Odyssey: Book 3
The Odyssey: Book 3
But as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of
heaven to shed Blight on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos …
The Odyssey: Book 2
The Odyssey: Book 2
Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared,
Telemachus rose and dressed himself. He bound his sandals on to his
The Odyssey: Book 21
The Odyssey: Book 21
Minerva now put it in Penelope's mind to make the suitors try
their skill with the bow and with the iron axes, in contest among
The Odyssey: Book 16
The Odyssey: Book 16
Meanwhile Ulysses and the swineherd had lit a fire in the hut and
were were getting breakfast ready at daybreak for they had sent th…
The Odyssey: Book 18
The Odyssey: Book 18
Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all
over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible