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The Thebaid (/ˈθiːbeɪ.ɪd/; Latin: Thēbaïs, lit. 'Song of Thebes') is a Latin epic poem written by the Roman poet Statius. Published in the early 90s AD...

history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature...

Messiah (1712) is a poem by Alexander Pope which Samuel Johnson translated into Latin in December 1728. This was the first poem of Johnson's to be published...

The Fasti (Latin: Fāstī [faːstiː], "the Calendar"), sometimes translated as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written by...

Catullus 8 is a Latin poem of nineteen lines in choliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus, known by its incipit, Miser Catulle. The speaker, somewhat...

"The Garden" in a Latin poem, "Hortus", printed to follow "The Garden" in Miscellaneous Poems. Critics have commented that the poem's pastoralism works...

Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre...

(1221–1274). It is a medieval Latin poem characterized by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The poem describes the Last Judgment...

The Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphōsēs, from Ancient Greek: μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid...

The Aeneid (/ɪˈniːɪd/ ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenē̆is [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who...

Catullus 63 is a Latin poem of 93 lines in galliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus. The poem is about the self-mutilation and subsequent lament of...

in one movement by Eric Whitacre. It is a Christmas piece based on a Latin poem of the same name, which translates as "Light, warm and heavy as pure gold...

Pervigilium Veneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries. It is sometimes thought...

Catullus 6 is a Latin poem of seventeen lines in Phalaecean hendecasyllabic metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Flavius is teased about an intrigue which...

Catullus 10 is a Latin poem of thirty-four lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Catullus, or the speaker, tells at his own expense how...

Latin poem of 968 lines in Goliardic manner, recording, celebrating, and justifying the victory of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Lewes. The poem...

the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia The Pig War (poem), a Latin poem "The Pig War," an episode of Hey, Arnold! loosely inspired by the...

poems, the meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic. This is also the only time Cicero is ever mentioned in any of Catullus' poems. The following Latin text...

anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave Phoenice attributed...

nearly half the entire account, to conflict with Amulius. Fasti, the epic Latin poem by Ovid from the early 1st century AD, contains a complete account of...