Summary From Ennius onwards, Latin poets have repeatedly described in their verses dances or processions of the seasons. When commenting on the regularity of their cycle or succession, they have given specific overtones to their pictures of this natural phenomenon, inspired by their own perception of life or by proper philosophical systems, such as pythagorism and epicureanism. A close examination and comparison of texts by Ennius, Lucretius, Horace, Ovid, and the anonymous authors of the Laus Pisonis and the Aetna, shows that these poets engaged into a mutual dialogue over the centuries. Not only did they establish a true Latin topos, but they also used it so as to give free rein to their originality, in full compliance with the ancient concept of creative mimesis.