The Oxford Book of Latin Verse

The Oxford Book of Latin Verse is chronological collection of Latin poems and verses edited by British classical scholar H. W. Garrod, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

Contents:

NVMA POMPILIVS

Fragments of the Saliar Hymns

THE ARVAL BROTHERHOOD

Against Plague upon the Harvest

ANONYMOUS

Charms

An Ancient Lullaby

Epitaphs of the Scipios

L. LIVIVS ANDRONICVS

Fragments of the Odyssey

Dramatic Fragments

CN. NAEVIVS

Fragments of the Bellum Poenicum

Dramatic Fragments

His Own Epitaph

T. MACCIVS PLAVTVS

His Own Epitaph

MARCIVS VATES

Precepts

Vaticinium

Q. ENNIVS

The Vision of Ilia

Romulus and Remus

The Speech of Pyrrhus

Character of a Friend of Servilius

M. Cornelius Cethegus

Caelius resists the Onset of the Istri

Toga Cedit Armis

Lesser Fragments of the Annals

Alcmaeon

Andromache

Cassandra

Telamon

Telamon

Molestum Otium

Medeae Nutrix

From the Iphigenia

Epitaph for Scipio Africanus

The Same

Scipio to Ennius

His own Epitaph

M. PACVVIVS

Fortune

The Greeks set sail from Troy

Genitabile Caelum

Speech

Womanish Tears

His Own Epitaph

L. ACCIVS

Tarquin's Dream

The Argo seen by a Shepherd who has never seen a Ship

Shorter Fragments

ANONYMOUS

Epitaph of Claudia

POMPILIVS

His Poetical Lineage

VALERIVS AEDITVVS

The Lamp of Love

Q. LVTATIVS CATVLVS

Lost: A Heart

The Rising Sun of Roscius

PORCIVS LICINVS

Ignis Homo Est

Terence corrupted by his Patrons

LAEVIVS

From the Erotopaegnia

M. FVRIVS BIBACVLVS

The Garden of Valerius Cato

The Reward of the Scholar

ORACVLVM

M. TVLLIVS CICERO

De Consulatu Suo

Marius

From the Odyssey

From Sophocles

From Euripides

C. HELVIVS CINNA

An Astronomical Poem written upon Mallow Leaves

M. TVLLIVS LAVREA

Magic Waters in the Garden of Cicero's Villa

Q. TVLLIVS CICERO

Astronomical Fragment

C. IVLIVS CAESAR

Terence

C. LICINIVS MACER CALVVS

Fragments of Epithalamia

The Death of Quintilia

T. LVCRETIVS CARVS

Exordium

The Rule of Reason

Magna Mater

Epicurus and the Fear of Death

The Powers of Hell

The World's Conquerors

Primitive Man

Origin of Belief in God

C. VALERIVS CATVLLVS

A Hymn to Diana

Hymen, O Hymenaee

Attis

Iunia weds with Manlius…