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PART II. THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROMAN LITERATURE.

A. 671/83 B.C.-770/17 a.d.

A. The CICERONIAN AGE, 671/83-711/43.

General characterisation and review of the Ciceronian Age, p. 243.
I. First half of the Ciceronian Age, 671/83-691/63.

164. M. Terentius Varro: his life and character, p. 252.

poetry, p. 254. 166. The prose works of Varro, p. 256. 167. Varro's work de
168. Varro's books rerum rusticarum,

192. Poets of this period: Albucius, Egnatius, D. Laberius, M. Furius Bibaculus,

p. 327.

212. Poets (non-political):

213. Ticidas, Helvius Cinna
215. Political literature

p. 399. 217. Epistles,

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ABBREVIATIONS.

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Ber. MBer. SBer. = Berichte, Monatsberichte, Sitzungsberichte (reports, monthly reports, sessional reports) of the philosophical and historical Faculties of the Academies at Berlin, Munich, Vienna and of the sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften at Leipzig. Berlph Wschr. Berliner philologische Wochenschrift. BlfdbayrG. Blätter für das bayerische Gymnasialschulwesen. Herm. Hermes, Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie. JB. Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klass. Altertumswissenschaft. JJ. Neue Jahrbücher f. Philol. u. Pädagogik (the [old] Jahrbücher f. Philol. u. Pädag. are distinguished by the addition of the year). JJ. Arch. Archiv für Philologie (edited by JCHRJAHN and others). JJ. Suppl. Supplement bände zu den Jahrbb. für Philol. u. Pädag. (edited by AFLECKEISEN). NArchfädG.- Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde. Phil. Philologus, Zeitschrift für das klassische Altertum. RhM. Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, new series (the [old] Rhein. Mus. is distinguished by the addition of the year). WschrfklPh.= Wochenschrift für klassische Philologie. ZfAW. Zeitschrift für die Altertumswissenschaft. ZfGW. = [Berliner] Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen. ZföG. Zeitschr. für die österreichischen Gymnasien. ZfRG.Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte, Zeitschrift d. Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistiche Abteilung.

AL. Anthologia Latina, rec. ARIESE, see § 31, 4. CHATELAIN ECHATELAIN, paléographie des classiques Latins. CIL. Corpus inscriptionum latinarum, see § 40, 1. DIE. Dia lectorum italicarum exempla selecta ed. ESCHNEIDER I, Lpz. 1886. AEBERT, LdMA.= his Allgem. Gesch. der Literatur des Mittelalters im Abendlande. FPR. Fragmenta poetarum Romanorum, coll. et em. EBÄHRENS, see § 19, 4. GL. Grammatici latini ex recensione HKEILII, see § 41, 6. MIGNE his Cursus patrologiae (latinae) completus. ORELLI (OR.-HENZEN) = his Collection of inscriptions, see § 40, 2. PLM. Poetae latini minores, rec. et emend. EBÄHRENS, Lpz. 1879-83 V (the numbers are those of the volume and page. WERNSDORF'S PLM. distinguished by the addition of the name). PM.= Priscae latinitatis monumenta, ed. RITSCHL, see § 40, 1 1. 5. PRE. PAULY'S Realencyclopädie der klass. Alterthumswissenschaft. WILM.=GWILLMANNS' Collection of inscriptions, see § 40, 2. Wordsw. EL.=JWORDSWORTH, Fragments

and specimens of early Latin, see § 61, 2.

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Numbers to which § is prefixed refer to the Sections of the book.

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PART I:

GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT.

1. The Romans lacked the versatility, manysidedness and imaginative power of the Greeks; their eminent qualities are sober and acute thought, and firmness and perseverance of will. Their intellect was directed to the practical, and sometimes degenerated into egotism and cunning, just as their perseverance often turned into obstinacy and pedantry. In the domain of state and law these qualities accomplished great and enduring results, while they were decidedly unfavourable to art and literature.

1. Cic. Tusc. 1, 2 quae tanta gravitas, quae tanta constantia, magnitudo animi, probitas, fides, quae tam/excellens in omni genere virtus in ullis fuit, ut sit cum maioribus nostris comparanda? (3) doctrina Graecia nos et omni litterarum genere superabat etc. De imp. Pomp. 60 maiores nostros semper in pace consuetudini, in bello utilitati paruisse. Cf. PLIN. NH. 25, 4. TAC. dial. 5 si ad utilitatem vitae omnia consilia factaque nostra dirigenda sunt. QUINTIL. 12, 2, 7 ego illum quem instituo romanum quendam velim esse sapientem, qui non secretis disceptationibus, sed rerum experimentis atque operibus vere civilem virum exhibeat.

2. VARRO RR. 1, 2, 2 vetus proverbium: Romanus sedendo vincit. Liv. 23, 14, 1 insita (Romanorum) animis industria. Liv. 42, 62 romana constantia, cf. 30, 7 and POLYB. 3, 75 extr. 27, 8 ἴδιον τοῦτο πάντῃ παρὰ ̔Ρωμαίοις ἔθος καὶ πάτριόν ἐστι, τὸ κατὰ μὲν τὰς ἐλαττώσεις αὐθαδεστάτους καὶ βαρυτάτους φαίνεσθαι, κατὰ δὲ τὰς ἐπιτυχίας ὡς μετριωτάτους. ib. 1, 39 ὄντες ἐν παντὶ φιλότιμοι διαφερόντως.

3. FRONTO epist. p. 135 Nab. putem, quia reapse nemo est Romae piλóσTOPYOS, ne nomen quidem huic virtuti esse romanum. The romana simplicitas (e.g. in MARTIAL. 11, 20, 10 and SYMMACH. epist. 7, 123; cf. HOR. S. 1, 3, 52) is frequently much less plainness than coarseness. Of the Romana fides also (Liv. 5, 27, 11; cf. more romano in Cic. ad fam. 7, 5, 3. 16, 3. 18, 3) the other nations formed a peculiar opinion. Liv. 9, 11, 7 semper aliquam fraudi speciem iuris imponitis. PLUT. Crass. 31.

4. The younger Africanus ap. MACR. sat. 3, 14, 7 eunt in ludum histrionum, discunt cantare, quae maiores nostri ingenuis probro ducier voluerunt. ib. 10 Cato, R. L.

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