Editing Ovid (section)

===''Consolatio ad Liviam'' ("Consolation to Livia")===
The ''Consolatio'' is a long elegiac poem of consolation to [[Augustus]]' wife [[Livia]] on the death of her son [[Nero Claudius Drusus]]. The poem opens by advising Livia not to try to hide her sad emotions and contrasts Drusus' military virtue with his death. Drusus' funeral and the tributes of the imperial family are described as are his final moments and Livia's lament over the body, which is compared to birds. The laments of the city of Rome as it greets his funeral procession and the gods are mentioned, and Mars from his temple dissuades the Tiber river from quenching the pyre out of grief.<ref name="Knox, P 2009 pg.214">Knox, P. "Lost and Spurious Works" in Knox, P. (2009) p. 214</ref>

Grief is expressed for his lost military honors, his wife, and his mother. The poet asks Livia to look for consolation in [[Tiberius]]. The poem ends with an address by Drusus to Livia assuring him of his fate in Elysium. Although this poem was connected to the ''[[Elegiae in Maecenatem]]'', it is now thought that they are unconnected. The date of the piece is unknown, but a date in the reign of Tiberius has been suggested because of that emperor's prominence in the poem.<ref name="Knox, P 2009 pg.214"/>