A Latin Anthology

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Authors:

• Caesar
• Catullus
• Cicero
• Horace
• Ovid
• Virgil
• Vulgate Bible

Caesar

• De Bello Gallico 1.1: Introduction.
• De Bello Gallico 6.13-20: Society of the Gauls. The Druids. (See also Tacitus, Germania.)

Catullus

• Poem 1
• Poem 2
• Poem 3
• Poem 4
• Poem 5
• Poem 7
• Poem 8
• Poem 9
• Poem 10
• Poem 11
• Poem 12
• Poem 13
• Poem 22
• Poem 27
• Poem 31
• Poem 34 Roman statue of Diana
• Poem 35
• Poem 36
• Poem 42
• Poem 43
• Poem 44
• Poem 45
• Poem 46
• Poem 49
• Poem 50
• Poem 51
• Poem 53
• Poem 62
• Poem 64 Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
• Poem 70
• Poem 72
• Poem 73
• Poem 75
• Poem 76
• Poem 77
• Poem 83
• Poem 84
• Poem 85
• Poem 86
• Poem 87
• Poem 92
• Poem 95
• Poem 96
• Poem 101
• Poem 107
• Poem 109

Cicero

• Pro Caelio sect. 1-9
• Pro Caelio sect. 21-22
• Pro Caelio sect. 30-43
• Pro Caelio sect. 47-50
• Pro Caelio sect. 72-77
• Pro Caelio sect. 79-80
• Pro Archia sect. 1
• Pro Milone sect. 10: The ambush.
• In Catilinam 1 sect. 1
• Letter to Atticus 1.2: Birth of a son

Horace

• Odes 1.1
• Odes 1.5
• Odes 1.9
• Odes 1.11
• Odes 1.13
• Odes 1.22
• Odes 1.23
• Odes 1.24
• Odes 1.25
• Odes 1.37
• Odes 1.38
• Odes 2.3
• Odes 2.7
• Odes 2.10
• Odes 2.14
• Odes 3.1
• Odes 3.9
• Odes 3.13 The "fons Bandusiae" at Horace's Villa near Tivoli
• Odes 3.30
• Odes 4.7
• Satires 1.9 The Via Sacra
• Ars Poetica 1-12: Introduction
• Ars Poetica 347-366: A poem should be like a picture

Ovid

• Metamorphoses 1.452-567: Daphne and Apollo
• Metamorphoses 4.55-166: Pyramus and Thisbe (See also Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5 scene 1) Painting from Pompeii showing Pyramus and Thisbe
• Metamorphoses 8.183-235: Daedalus and Icarus
• Metamorphoses 8.616-724: Baucis and Philemon
• Metamorphoses 10.238-297: Pygmalion and the Statue
• Amores, the epigram
• Amores 1.1
• Amores 1.3
• Amores 1.5
• Amores 1.9
• Amores 1.11
• Amores 1.12
• Amores 3.15
• Ars Amatoria 1.135-170: At the races Late antique coin showing the Circus Maximus

Virgil

• Eclogue 4 Sheep, on the Ara Pacis Augustae
• Aeneid 1.1-519
• Aeneid 2.1-56
• Aeneid 2.199-297
• Aeneid 2.469-566
• Aeneid 2.735-805 Aeneas and Anchises leaving Troy
• Aeneid 4.1-448 (See also Ovid, Heroides 7, a letter from Dido to Aeneas; and Marlowe's Dido Queen of Carthage)
• Aeneid 4.642-705
• Aeneid 6.1-211
• Aeneid 6.450-476
• Aeneid 6.847-901
• Aeneid 10.420-509
• Aeneid 12.791-842
• Aeneid 12.887-952

Vulgate Bible

• Exodus 20: The Ten Commandments
• Matthew 5-7: The Sermon on the Mount
• Luke 2: Nativity