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Vergil, Eclogues, 6.64-6.73


nanas with a beast to mate, though many a time


nanon her smooth forehead she had sought for horns


nanand for her neck had feared the galling plough.


nanO ill-starred maid! thou roamest now the hills


nanwhile on soft hyacinths he, his snowy side


nanreposing, under some dark ilex now


nanchews the pale herbage, or some heifer track


nanamid the crowding herd. Now close, ye Nymphs


nanye Nymphs of Dicte, close the forest-glades


nanif haply there may chance upon mine eye


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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 25-26, 24 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

24. By them to sing adeptly as he brought
2. Homer, Odyssey, 4.382-4.569 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

209b. and justice. So when a man’s soul is so far divine that it is made pregt with these from his youth, and on attaining manhood immediately desires to bring forth and beget, he too, I imagine, goes about seeking the beautiful object whereon he may do his begetting, since he will never beget upon the ugly. Hence it is the beautiful rather than the ugly bodies that he welcomes in his pregcy, and if he chances also on a soul that is fair and noble and well-endowed, he gladly cherishes the two combined in one; and straightway in addressing such a person he is resourceful in discoursing of virtue and of what should be
4. Theocritus, Idylls, 1.82, 3.42, 17.124-17.130 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

5. Cicero, Philippicae, 5.43 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.117-1.118, 2.7-2.10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

7. Ovid, Fasti, 3.285-3.348 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

3.291. Can teach you the rites of expiation. But they won’t 3.292. Teach them unless compelled: so catch and bind them.’ 3.293. And she revealed the arts by which they could be caught. 3.294. There was a grove, dark with holm-oaks, below the Aventine 3.295. At sight of which you would say: ‘There’s a god within.’ 3.296. The centre was grassy, and covered with green moss 3.297. And a perennial stream of water trickled from the rock. 3.298. Faunus and Picus used to drink there alone. 3.299. Numa approached and sacrificed a sheep to the spring 3.300. And set out cups filled with fragrant wine. 3.301. Then he hid with his people inside the cave. 3.302. The woodland spirits came to their usual spring 3.303. And quenched their dry throats with draughts of wine. 3.304. Sleep succeeded wine: Numa emerged from the icy cave 3.305. And clasped the sleepers’ hands in tight shackles. 3.306. When sleep vanished, they fought and tried to burst 3.307. Their bonds, which grew tighter the more they struggled. 3.308. Then Numa spoke: ‘Gods of the sacred groves, if you accept 3.309. My thoughts were free of wickedness, forgive my actions: 3.310. And show me how the lightning may be averted.’ 3.311. So Numa: and, shaking his horns, so Faunus replied: 3.312. ‘You seek great things, that it’s not right for you to know 3.313. Through our admission: our powers have their limits. 3.314. We are rural gods who rule in the high mountains: 3.315. Jupiter has control of his own weapons. 3.316. You could never draw him from heaven by yourself 3.317. But you may be able, by making use of our aid.’ 3.318. Faunus spoke these words: Picus too agreed 3.319. ‘But remove our shackles,’ Picus added: 3.320. ‘Jupiter will arrive here, drawn by powerful art. 3.321. Cloudy Styx will be witness to my promise.’ 3.322. It’s wrong for men to know what the gods enacted when loosed 3.323. From the snare, or what spells they spoke, or by what art 3.324. They drew Jupiter from his realm above. My song will sing 3.325. of lawful things, such as a poet may speak with pious lips. 3.326. The drew you (eliciunt) from the sky, Jupiter, and later 3.327. Generations now worship you, by the name of Elicius. 3.328. It’s true that the crowns of the Aventine woods trembled 3.329. And the earth sank under the weight of Jove. 3.330. The king’s heart shook, the blood fled from his body 3.331. And the bristling hair stood up stiffly on his head. 3.332. When he regained his senses, he said: ‘King and father 3.333. To the high gods, if I have touched your offering 3.334. With pure hands, and if a pious tongue, too, asks for 3.335. What I seek, grant expiation from your lightning,’ 3.336. The god accepted his prayer, but hid the truth with deep 3.337. Ambiguities, and terrified him with confusing words. 3.338. ‘Sever a head,’ said the god: the king replied; ‘I will 3.339. We’ll sever an onion’s, dug from my garden.’ 3.340. The god added: ‘of a man’: ‘You’ll have the hair,’ 3.341. Said the king. He demanded a life, Numa replied: ‘A fish’s’. 3.342. The god laughed and said: ‘Expiate my lightning like this 3.343. O man who cannot be stopped from speaking with gods. 3.344. And when Apollo’s disc is full tomorrow 3.345. I’ll give you sure pledges of empire.’ 3.346. He spoke, and was carried above the quaking sky
8. Propertius, Elegies, 3.3.6 (1st cent. BCE

9. Vergil, Eclogues, 1.40-1.45, 2.68, 4.12, 6.7-6.8, 6.10-6.11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.19, 6.27, 6.31-6.40, 6.47-6.52, 6.54, 6.58, 6.62-6.63, 6.65-6.77, 8.41, 9.47, 10.22 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.40. I serve but Amaryllis: for I will own 1.41. while Galatea reigned over me, I had 1.42. no hope of freedom, and no thought to save. 1.43. Though many a victim from my folds went forth 1.44. or rich cheese pressed for the unthankful town 1.45. never with laden hands returned I home. MELIBOEUS 2.68. alexis; no, nor would Iollas yield 4.12. befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own 6.7. but sing a slender song.” Now, Varus, I— 6.8. for lack there will not who would laud thy deeds 6.10. to the slim oaten reed my silvan lay. 6.11. I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even thi 6.13. of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisk 6.15. a page more dear to Phoebus, than the page 6.19. ilenus sleeping, flushed, as was his wont 6.27. aegle came up to the half-frightened boys 6.31. and crying, “Why tie the fetters? loose me, boys; 6.40. of Rhodope or Ismarus: for he sang 6.47. little by little; and how the earth amazed 6.48. beheld the new sun shining, and the shower 6.49. fall, as the clouds soared higher, what time the wood 6.50. 'gan first to rise, and living things to roam 6.51. cattered among the hills that knew them not. 6.52. Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast 6.58. pasiphae with the love of her white bull— 6.63. of such unhallowed union e'er was fain 6.65. on her smooth forehead she had sought for horns 6.66. and for her neck had feared the galling plough. 6.69. reposing, under some dark ilex now 6.70. chews the pale herbage, or some heifer track 6.71. amid the crowding herd. Now close, ye Nymphs 6.73. if haply there may chance upon mine eye 6.74. the white bull's wandering foot-prints: him belike 6.76. ome kine may guide to the Gortynian stalls. 8.41. your bride along; now, bridegroom, scatter nuts: 9.47. or Cinna deem I, but account myself 10.22. of us they feel no shame, poet divine;
10. Vergil, Georgics, 4.387-4.528 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.387. And nostrils twain, and done with blows to death 4.388. Batter his flesh to pulp i' the hide yet whole 4.389. And shut the doors, and leave him there to lie. 4.390. But 'neath his ribs they scatter broken boughs 4.391. With thyme and fresh-pulled cassias: this is done 4.392. When first the west winds bid the waters flow 4.393. Ere flush the meadows with new tints, and ere 4.394. The twittering swallow buildeth from the beams. 4.395. Meanwhile the juice within his softened bone 4.396. Heats and ferments, and things of wondrous birth 4.397. Footless at first, anon with feet and wings 4.398. Swarm there and buzz, a marvel to behold; 4.399. And more and more the fleeting breeze they take 4.400. Till, like a shower that pours from summer-clouds 4.401. Forth burst they, or like shafts from quivering string 4.402. When 4.403. Say what was he, what God, that fashioned forth 4.404. This art for us, O Muses? of man's skill 4.405. Whence came the new adventure? From thy vale 4.406. Peneian Tempe, turning, bee-bereft 4.407. So runs the tale, by famine and disease 4.408. Mournful the shepherd Aristaeus stood 4.409. Fast by the haunted river-head, and thu 4.410. With many a plaint to her that bare him cried: 4.411. “Mother, Cyrene, mother, who hast thy home 4.412. Beneath this whirling flood, if he thou sayest 4.413. Apollo, lord of Thymbra, be my sire 4.414. Sprung from the Gods' high line, why barest thou me 4.415. With fortune's ban for birthright? Where is now 4.416. Thy love to me-ward banished from thy breast? 4.417. O! wherefore didst thou bid me hope for heaven? 4.418. Lo! even the crown of this poor mortal life 4.419. Which all my skilful care by field and fold 4.420. No art neglected, scarce had fashioned forth 4.421. Even this falls from me, yet thou call'st me son. 4.422. Nay, then, arise! With thine own hands pluck up 4.423. My fruit-plantations: on the homestead fling 4.424. Pitiless fire; make havoc of my crops; 4.425. Burn the young plants, and wield the stubborn axe 4.426. Against my vines, if there hath taken the 4.427. Such loathing of my greatness.” 4.428. But that cry 4.429. Even from her chamber in the river-deeps 4.430. His mother heard: around her spun the nymph 4.431. Milesian wool stained through with hyaline dye 4.432. Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce 4.433. Their glossy locks o'er snowy shoulders shed 4.434. Cydippe and Lycorias yellow-haired 4.435. A maiden one, one newly learned even then 4.436. To bear Lucina's birth-pang. Clio, too 4.437. And Beroe, sisters, ocean-children both 4.438. Both zoned with gold and girt with dappled fell 4.439. Ephyre and Opis, and from Asian mead 4.440. Deiopea, and, bow at length laid by 4.441. Fleet-footed Arethusa. But in their midst 4.442. Fair Clymene was telling o'er the tale 4.443. of Vulcan's idle vigilance and the stealth 4.444. of Mars' sweet rapine, and from Chaos old 4.445. Counted the jostling love-joys of the Gods. 4.446. Charmed by whose lay, the while their woolly task 4.447. With spindles down they drew, yet once again 4.448. Smote on his mother's ears the mournful plaint 4.449. of Aristaeus; on their glassy throne 4.450. Amazement held them all; but Arethuse 4.451. Before the rest put forth her auburn head 4.452. Peering above the wave-top, and from far 4.453. Exclaimed, “Cyrene, sister, not for naught 4.454. Scared by a groan so deep, behold! 'tis he 4.455. Even Aristaeus, thy heart's fondest care 4.456. Here by the brink of the Peneian sire 4.457. Stands woebegone and weeping, and by name 4.458. Cries out upon thee for thy cruelty.” 4.459. To whom, strange terror knocking at her heart 4.460. “Bring, bring him to our sight,” the mother cried; 4.461. “His feet may tread the threshold even of Gods.” 4.462. So saying, she bids the flood yawn wide and yield 4.463. A pathway for his footsteps; but the wave 4.464. Arched mountain-wise closed round him, and within 4.465. Its mighty bosom welcomed, and let speed 4.466. To the deep river-bed. And now, with eye 4.467. of wonder gazing on his mother's hall 4.468. And watery kingdom and cave-prisoned pool 4.469. And echoing groves, he went, and, stunned by that 4.470. Stupendous whirl of waters, separate saw 4.471. All streams beneath the mighty earth that glide 4.472. Phasis and Lycus, and that fountain-head 4.473. Whence first the deep Enipeus leaps to light 4.474. Whence father placeName key= 4.475. And Hypanis that roars amid his rocks 4.476. And Mysian Caicus, and, bull-browed 4.477. 'Twixt either gilded horn, placeName key= 4.478. Than whom none other through the laughing plain 4.479. More furious pours into the purple sea. 4.480. Soon as the chamber's hanging roof of stone 4.481. Was gained, and now Cyrene from her son 4.482. Had heard his idle weeping, in due course 4.483. Clear water for his hands the sisters bring 4.484. With napkins of shorn pile, while others heap 4.485. The board with dainties, and set on afresh 4.486. The brimming goblets; with Panchaian fire 4.487. Upleap the altars; then the mother spake 4.488. “Take beakers of Maconian wine,” she said 4.489. “Pour we to Ocean.” Ocean, sire of all 4.490. She worships, and the sister-nymphs who guard 4.491. The hundred forests and the hundred streams; 4.492. Thrice Vesta's fire with nectar clear she dashed 4.493. Thrice to the roof-top shot the flame and shone: 4.494. Armed with which omen she essayed to speak: 4.495. “In Neptune's gulf Carpathian dwells a seer 4.496. Caerulean Proteus, he who metes the main 4.497. With fish-drawn chariot of two-footed steeds; 4.498. Now visits he his native home once more 4.499. Pallene and the Emathian ports; to him 4.500. We nymphs do reverence, ay, and Nereus old; 4.501. For all things knows the seer, both those which are 4.502. And have been, or which time hath yet to bring; 4.503. So willed it Neptune, whose portentous flocks 4.504. And loathly sea-calves 'neath the surge he feeds. 4.505. Him first, my son, behoves thee seize and bind 4.506. That he may all the cause of sickness show 4.507. And grant a prosperous end. For save by force 4.508. No rede will he vouchsafe, nor shalt thou bend 4.509. His soul by praying; whom once made captive, ply 4.510. With rigorous force and fetters; against these 4.511. His wiles will break and spend themselves in vain. 4.512. I, when the sun has lit his noontide fires 4.513. When the blades thirst, and cattle love the shade 4.514. Myself will guide thee to the old man's haunt 4.515. Whither he hies him weary from the waves 4.516. That thou mayst safelier steal upon his sleep. 4.517. But when thou hast gripped him fast with hand and gyve 4.518. Then divers forms and bestial semblance 4.519. Shall mock thy grasp; for sudden he will change 4.520. To bristly boar, fell tigress, dragon scaled 4.521. And tawny-tufted lioness, or send forth 4.522. A crackling sound of fire, and so shake of 4.523. The fetters, or in showery drops anon 4.524. Dissolve and vanish. But the more he shift 4.525. His endless transformations, thou, my son 4.526. More straitlier clench the clinging bands, until 4.527. His body's shape return to that thou sawest 4.528. When with closed eyelids first he sank to sleep.”
11. Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking, 6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



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alexis Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 107
allusion Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 107
amor/amor/cupid Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106
ancile/ancilia Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
arsinoe Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
attraction Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 107, 114
augustus, as divi filius Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
augustus, as praesens deus Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
augustus, as restorer of rome Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
berenice Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
binding scenes Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
bucolic locus amoenus and poetic inspiration Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
callimachus Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
campania Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
christian responses to mountains Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
cicero, on octavian Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
corydon Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 107
demetrius Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
dionysius of halicarnassus Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
divi filius Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
epicureanism/epicurean philosophy Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 114
epicureanism Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
gallus, cornelius Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
gallus, gaius cornelius (poet) Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
gallus Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106, 114
gratidianus, marius Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
gregory of nyssa Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
hadrian Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
happiness Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 114
hellenistic encomia Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
hellenistic ruler cult Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
hesiod Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106
julius caesar Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
jupiter, elicius Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
libertas Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
lucian, charon Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
madness (love as) Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106
marius, gaius Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
methodius, symposium Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
monte mario Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
monti tiburtini Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
mount olympus Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
muses Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
numa, and jupiter elicius Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
numa, and picus and faunus Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
numa, and poetry Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
otium Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
ovid, ars amatoria Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106
pasiphae Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106, 107
passion Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106, 107
picus and faunus, binding of Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
plato, symposium Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 114
plato Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348; Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 114
platonic, stoic Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
platonism/platonic philosophy Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 114
plautus, mercator Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106
poet as emulator of city-builders, in fasti' Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
pollio, gaius asinius Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
proteus, binding of Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
ptolemy i soter Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
ptolemy ii philadelphus Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
rivers Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
ross, d.o. Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 114
scylla Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 107
silenus, binding of Pasco-Pranger, Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (2006) 93
tempe Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
theocritus, idylls Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106
theocritus Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106; Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
thucydides Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 348
tityrus Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
tivoli Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
varus Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 46
villas Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 338
virgil Thorsen et al., Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (2021) 106, 107, 114