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 festival Page 86
Horace, Odes III.18
Recipe for happiness
Page 88Martial, Epigrams X.47
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Spring and thoughts of mortality
Page 90Horace, Odes IV.7
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Elysium Page 94
Virgil, Aeneid VI 638-665
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Live now! Page 96
Martial, Epigrams I.15.11-12
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The only form of immortality Page 96
Seneca 415 in Anthologia Latina I.1 (ed. D. R. Shackleton Bailey)
The poet's advice to mourners
Page 98Lucretius, De Rerum Natura III.894-903