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| General Introduction nbsp; Satires Introduction to Book One | |
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| Don't go overboard | |
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| Adultery is childish | |
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| But no one asked you to sing | |
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| And when I have time, I put something down on paper | |
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| From Rome to Brindisi, with stops | |
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| I am only a freedman's son | |
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| King Rex: off with his head | |
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| A little Walpurgisnacht music | |
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| Bored to distraction | |
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| The fine art of criticism nbsp; Introduction to Book Two | |
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| To write or not to write? (A talk with my lawyer) | |
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| Plain living and high thinking | |
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| A Stoic sermon | |
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| Gourmet �nbsp;la mode | |
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| How to recoup your losses | |
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| The town mouse and the country mouse | |
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| My slave is free to speak up for himself | |
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| Nasidienus has some friend in for dinner nbsp; Epistles Introduction to Book One | |
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| To Maecenas (20 B.C.): Philosophy has clipped my wings | |
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| To Lollius Maximus (22 B.C.): Homer teaches us all how to live, but we have to do it ourselves | |
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| To Julius Florus, campaigning with Tiberius (20 B.C.): How are you out there with all those officers? What are you doing with your spare time? | |
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| To Albius Tibullus (24 B.C.): Don't be depressed, my friend. I'm not! | |
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| To Torquatus (22 B.C.): Come to dinner tonight, the twenty-second | |
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| To Numicius (no date): Nil admirari | |
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| To Maecenas (no date): I won't be coming to town this winter. Sorry! | |
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| To Celsus Albinovanus, campaigning with Tiberius (20 B.C.): I'm depressed. Hope you aren't | |
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| To Tiberius (20 B.C.): Recommending to you my friend Septimius 10. To Aristius Fuscus (21 B.C.): You can leave the city. I'll take the country | |
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| To Bullatius (no date): How was your trip? | |
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| To Iccius, in Sicily (20 B.C.): Hope you are doing well in your work for the Department of External Revenue. But do look up Pompeius Grosphus. Here's the latest news from Rome 13. To Vinius Asina (23 B.C.): Please give these does to Augustus, and watch what you're doing! 14. To the foreman on my farm (no date): You can have the city; I'll take the country 15. To Numonius Vala (22 B.C.): I'm planning to come south for the winter. What's it like down there? 16. To Quinctius (25 B.C.): Virtue is wisdom 17. To Scaeva (no date): How to win friends and influence patrons 18. To Lollius Maximus (20 B.C.): How to influence patrons: be yourself! 19. To Maecenas (20 B.C.): My lyric poetry is notderivative, it'scontributive 20. To my first book of epistles (20 B.C.): I guess it's up to you to make your own way in the world nbsp; Introduction to Book Two 1. The Epistle to Augustus: The literary tradition, and the role of our Roman writers 2. To Julius Florus, still campaigning with Tiberius: Literary ambitions, and how to survive them 3. The art of poetry nbsp; Notes | |