alterations were too important to be thrown into separate notes. The Editor preferred to incorporate his own work in the text, which he modified as he deemed necessary, here and there cancelling the author's statements. This method of editing (he explains in his first preface) was facilitated by what he regards as a characteristic merit of Teuffel's writing, its perfect definiteness and objectivity of view-the reverse of the vague rhetoric which pervades most books concerned with the history of literature.
In his new edition (1890) Dr. Schwabe has further expanded and still more freely recast the original History. In so doing, however, he has continually adhered to the strict chronological plan laid down by the author, though in his own opinion it is not necessarily the best for elucidating the general movement of literature and the interdependence of its different branches. He records in the preface the continued assistance which has been rendered by Prof. Hertz. In the preparation of the previous edition he was aided by F. H. Reusch (in the sections on the Patristic literature) and A. v. Gutschmid (who revised the sections on the historians of the Imperial period); in the preparation of the present edition, by R. Förster, L. Havet, O. Keller, W. Meyer, and especially by his colleague O. Crusius.
An English translation was made, with the author's sanction, by the late Dr. Wilhelm Wagner, from the first German edition —with addenda (incomplete) from the second--and published by Messrs. Bell in 1873. This is retained throughout as the basis of the present translation. But in incorporating the author's additions, together with the larger additions and improvements which the work has acquired under Dr. Schwabe's able editorship, I have likewise revised the translation itself, with so much alteration as appeared requisite to make it more completely accurate, and (I hope) more uniformly idiomatic and readable.
In the bibliographical sections I have occasionally added to the list of editions and treatises, chiefly English.
As regards orthography, I have retained the usual Romanized spelling for Greek names of localities, while I have followed the German edition in writing Greek personal names without exception as in Greek (keeping y as the proper representative of upsilon). It is particularly convenient in a history of Roman literature that the Greek writers should be thus kept distinct from the Roman.
I have adopted the spelling "Vergil" instead of "Virgil," whereas Dr. Schwabe retains the latter side by side with "Vergilius." The juxtaposition of the true and false spelling is obviously awkward, and the latter appears to be fast retreating, at any rate from scholastic literature, in England and America.
With these few exceptions the translation, as it now stands, corresponds in all points with the latest German edition. The typographical improvements, which distinguish that edition from the fourth, have also been reproduced, e.g. the printing of the quotations in italics.
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, December, 1890.
1. The Roman character, p. 1.
3. POETRY: the Drama. The Roman talent for it, p. 3. 4. Popular
diversions, p. 3. 5. Fescenninae, p. 4. 6. Saturae, p. 5. 7. The Mimus: its
character and early history: Planipes, p. 6. 8. The Mimus at the end of the
Republic and in the Imperial period, p. 8. 9. The Atellanae (popular), p. 11.
10. The Atellanae (literary), p. 13. 11. Roman popular poetry, p. 14.
regular Drama: general view, p. 15. 13. Tragedy, p. 16. 14. The Praetexta,
p. 18.
15. The Palliata: its history, p. 19. 16. Characteristics of the
Palliata, p. 21. 17. The Togata (tabernaria, trabeata), p. 26.
Rhinthonica, p. 27.
19. The Epos: historical and national subject-matter, p. 28. 20. The
heroic Epos, p. 30. 21. Christian Epic poets, p. 31. 22. The Epithalamium,
p. 32.
23. Didactic poetry, p. 32. 24. Proverbial poems, p. 34.
poetical Epistle, p. 34. 26. Riddles: Centones: Acrosticha, p. 35.
Fable, p. 37. 28. Satire (literary), p. 38. 29. The Idyl, p. 39.
35. PROSE Literature, p. 47. 36. Roman historical literature, general view,
p. 48.
37. The Annalists, p. 50. 38. The historians of the Ciceronian and
Augustan age, p. 52. 39. The historians of the Empire, p. 53.
tions, p. 56. 41. Antiquarian and grammatical learning, p. 57.
studies: Lexicography, Prosody, Mythography etc., p. 61.
50. Roman Philosophy under the Republic, p. 83. 51. Philosophy under
the Empire, p. 85.
53. Natural sciences, p. 89.
54.
55. Medicine, p. 91. 56. Military science,
58. Land-measurement, p. 94. 59. Writers
PART II.-SPECIAL AND PERSONAL.
61. Formal character of the earliest literature: Carmen, p. 98,
Saturnian verse, p. 98. 63. Subjects of the earliest literature, p. 100.
tualistic. 64. Carmen Saliare, p. 100. 65. Carmen fratrum arvalium, p. 101.
66, 67. Maxims, prophecies etc., p. 101. b) Political and historical. 68.
Foedera regum, p. 102. 69. Treaties belonging to the earliest period of the
Republic, p. 102. 70. Leges regiae, p. 103. 71. Jus Papirianum, p. 103.
72. Commentarii regum, p. 103. 73. Libri and commentarii pontificum, p. 104.
74. Fasti (Calendar), p. 105. 75. Fasti (lists of magistrates), p. 107.
76.
Annales pontificum, p. 107. 77. Records of other priestly colleges, p. 109.
78. Records of secular magistracies, p. 109. 79. Libri magistratuum, p. 110.
c) Monumenta privata. 80. Private or family chronicles, p. 110. 81. Funeral
laudations, p. 111. 82. Funeral songs: naeniae: festal songs, p. 112.
83.
Inscriptions of the first five centuries, p. 113. 84. Carmina triumphalia, p. 114.
85. Other carmina popularia, p. 114. d) Legal monuments and literature.
86. The Twelve Tables, p. 115. 87. Legis actiones, p. 116. 88. Cn. Flavius
(jus Flavianum), p. 116. 89. The earliest jurists, P. Sempronius, Ti. Coruncanius,
p. 117.
90. Appius Claudius, p. 117.
I. POETS.-94. Andronicus, p. 128. 95. Cn. Naevius, p. 130.
life and writings, p. 132. 97. The twenty extant plays in their traditional
(alphabetical) order, p. 134. 98. Poetical characteristics, p. 141. 99. The
Plautine tradition: prologues: the early commentators: manuscripts and
editions, p. 145. 100. Q. Ennius: his life, p. 148. 101. His annales, p. 150.
102. His tragedies and praetextae, p. 151. 103. His saturae: Epicharmus,
Euhemerus etc., p. 152. 104. Political characteristics of Ennius, p. 153.
105. M. Pacuvius, p. 155. 106. Statius Caecilius, p. 156. 107. Other writers
of palliatae: Trabea, Luscius etc., p. 157. 108. P. Terentius: his life, p. 158.
109. His writings: manuscripts: commentators: didascaliae: editions, p. 159.
110. His six plays in their received order, p. 159. 111. Poetical characteristics
of Terence, p. 165. 112. Titinius: his togatae, p. 167. 113. Turpilius: his
palliatae, p. 168. 114. Other poets of the sixth century U.c., p. 168. 115.
Metrical inscriptions of the sixth century u.c., p. 169.
II. PROSE-WRITERS.-116. Earliest historians: Q. Fabius Pictor, p. 169.
117. L. Cincius Alimentus, p. 171. 118. M. Porcius Cato, his life and character,
p. 172.
119. Cato as an orator, p. 173. 120. Cato as an historian, p. 174.
121. Cato's praecepta ad filium and other writings, p. 176. 122. Cato de agri
cultura, p. 177. 123. Contemporary orators, p. 178. 124. C. Sulpicius Gallus,
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