Tiber

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.2 Tiber

  Rome's river, here in violent flood threatening the city's sacred monuments.

• The Odes §1.8 yellow Tiber

  Rome's river, where young men swam and exercised.

• The Odes §1.20 ancestral river

  The Tiber, with which the Etruscan-descended Maecenas is associated.

• The Odes §1.29 Tiber

  Rome's river; that it might 'turn back' is the adynaton for Iccius' reversal.

• The Odes §2.3 yellow Tiber

  Rome's river, washing the villa the heir will one day possess.

• The Odes §3.7 Tuscan

  The Tiber ('Tuscan channel'), down which Enipeus swims unmatched.

• The Odes §3.12 Tiber

  In whose waters Hebrus washes his oiled shoulders.

• The Epistles §1.11 Tiber

  The river of Rome; the Bore's invented errand lies 'far over the Tiber,' in the Trastevere district near Caesar's gardens.

• The Satires §1.9 over the Tiber

  The Tiber, Rome's river; the Bore's pretended errand lies across it in Trastevere, near the gardens Caesar willed to the people.