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ter his death I was asked, as one of his old pupils, to carry out the work which he had undertaken; and this book is now offered as a last tribute to the memory of my dear friend and master. J. W. M.
CONTENTS.
I. THE REPUBLIC.
I. ORIGINS OF LATIN LITERATURE: EARLY EPIC AND TRAGEDY. Andronicus--Naevius--Ennius--Pacuvius--Accius II. COMEDY: PLAUTUS AND TERENCE. III. EARLY PROSE: THE SATURA, OR MIXED MODE. The Early Jurists, Annalists, and Orators--Cato--The Scipionic Circle--Lucilius IV. LUCRETIUS. V. LYRIC POETRY: CATULLUS. Cinna and Calvus--Catullus VI. CICERO. VII. PROSE OF THE CICERONIAN AGE. Julius Caesar--The Continuators of the Commentaries-- Sallust--Nepos--Varro--Publilius Syrus
II. THE AUGUSTAN AGE.
I. VIRGIL. II. HORACE. III. PROPERTIUS AND THE ELEGISTS. Augustan Tragedy--Gallus--Propertius--Tibullus IV. OVID. Sulpicia--Ovid V. LIVY. VI. THE LESSER AUGUSTANS. Manilius--Phaedrus--Velleius--Paterculus--Celsus-- Vitruvius--The Elder Seneca
III. THE EMPIRE.
I. THE ROME OF NERO. The Younger Seneca--Lucan--Persius--Quintus Curtius --Columella--Calpurnius--Petronius II. THE SILVER AGE. Statius--Valerius Flaccus--Silius Italicus--Martial--The Elder Pliny--Quintilian III. TACITUS. IV. JUVENAL, THE YOUNGER PLINY, SUETONIUS: DECAY OF CLASSICAL LATIN. V. THE ELOCUTIO NOVELLA. Fronto--Apuleius--The Pervigilium Veneris VI. EARLY LATIN CHRISTIANITY. Minucius Felix--Tertullian--Cyprian--Arnobius-- Lactantius--Commodianus VII. THE FOURTH CENTURY. Papinian and Ulpian--Sammonicus--Nemesianus-- Tiberianus--The Augustan History--Ausonius--Claudian --Prudentius--Ammianus Marcellinus VIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. The End of the Ancient World--The Four Periods of Latin Literature--The Empire and the Church
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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THE REPUBLIC.
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ORIGINS OF LATIN LITERATURE: EARLY EPIC AND TRAGEDY.
To the Romans themselves, as they looked back two hundred years later, the beginnings of a real literature seemed defin