Venus

Reading notes

• The Secular Hymn §49-52 Venus

  Goddess of love and mother of Aeneas; divine ancestress of the Julian family and of Augustus.

• The Odes §1.2 Erycina

  Venus, worshipped on Mount Eryx in Sicily; 'smiling Erycina' attended by Mirth and Cupid.

• The Odes §1.3 the goddess who rules over Cyprus

  Venus, invoked with the Dioscuri and Aeolus to grant the ship safe passage.

• The Odes §1.4 Cytherean Venus

  Venus, named for her island Cythera, leading the spring dances under the moon.

• The Odes §1.13 Venus

  Goddess of love, who steeps true lovers' kisses 'with the fifth part of her nectar.'

• The Odes §1.15 Venus

  Paris' protectress, whose favor cannot save him on the battlefield.

• The Odes §1.18 Venus

  Named with Bacchus as the proper subject of after-wine talk.

• The Odes §1.19 mother of the Cupids

  Venus, who with Bacchus and License drives Horace back to love.

• The Odes §1.19 Venus

  Who, abandoning Cyprus, falls wholly on Horace and bars him from graver themes.

• The Odes §1.27 Venus

  Whatever 'Venus' (love) masters the youth, it is a love he need not blush for.

• The Odes §1.30 Venus

  Queen of Cnidos and Paphos, summoned to abandon Cyprus for Glycera's shrine.

• The Odes §1.32 Venus

  Among Alcaeus' themes, with 'the boy forever clinging to her' (Cupid).

• The Odes §1.33 Venus

  Who 'with savage jest' yokes ill-matched bodies and minds together.

• The Odes §2.7 Venus

  Named, by the dice-throw, 'master of the drinking' at the revel.

• The Odes §2.8 Venus

  Who 'laughs' at Barine's perjuries, herself the goddess of such love.

• The Odes §3.9 the old love

  The 'old love' (prisca Venus) that may yoke the parted pair again.

• The Odes §3.10 Venus

  The goddess who hates the pride urged on Lyce.

• The Odes §3.11 Venus

  Invoked with night to favor the husband's escape.

• The Odes §3.12 Cytherea

  Venus, whose 'winged boy' (Cupid) takes away Neobule's work-basket with love.

• The Odes §3.16 Venus

  With Jupiter, laughing at the frightened guardian of Danae.

• The Odes §3.18 Venus

  The wine, 'Venus's comrade,' brims the bowl at Faunus's festival.

• The Odes §3.21 Venus

  Invoked 'if she comes in gladness' to the night's drinking.

• The Odes §3.26 Venus

  'Sea-born Venus,' on whose temple wall the poet hangs up his arms of love.

• The Odes §3.27 Venus

  Who, 'laughing treacherously,' appears with Cupid to reveal Europa's destiny.

• The Odes §3.28 she who holds Cnidos

  Venus, the climactic subject, who visits Paphos drawn by swans.

• The Odes §4.1 Venus

  Begged not to renew love's 'wars' on a man past fifty; sent instead to young Paullus.

• The Odes §4.6 Venus

  Whose voice, with Apollo's, won Jove's nod for Aeneas's new walls.

• The Odes §4.10 the gifts of Venus

  Venus, in whose 'gifts' the cruel boy is now powerful; age will undo his pride.

• The Odes §4.11 Venus

  'Venus-born April,' the month of the sea-goddess, splits at the festal Ides.

• The Odes §4.15 Venus

  'Kindly Venus,' whose 'offspring' (the Julian line through Aeneas) the song celebrates.

• The Epistles §1.6 Venus

  Goddess of love, here by metonymy for sexual gratification.

• The Satires §1.2 the Venus I love

  Venus, goddess of love, here by metonymy for sexual gratification — the 'cheap and ready' kind Horace professes to prefer.