This selection contains poems de cultu deorum et vita hominum (about the worship of the gods and the life of men) by Horace, Martial, Virgil, Seneca and Lucretius.
The Stories
A country festivalPage 86
Horace, Odes III.18
Recipe for happinessPage 88
Martial, Epigrams X.47
Spring and thoughts of mortalityPage 90
Horace, Odes IV.7
ElysiumPage 94
Virgil, Aeneid VI 638-665
Live now!Page 96
Martial, Epigrams I.15.11-12
The only form of immortalityPage 96
Seneca 415 in Anthologia Latina I.1 (ed. D. R. Shackleton Bailey)
The poet's advice to mourners Page 98
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura III.894-903
