TEUFFEL'S

HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE

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HISTORY OF

ROMAN LITERATURE

REVISED AND ENLARGED BY

LUDWIG SCHWABE

AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE FIFTH GERMAN EDITION BY
GEORGE C. W. WARR, M.A

Ex-Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,
Professor of Classical Literature in King's College, London

VOL. II

THE IMPERIAL PERIOD

LONDON

GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO

1900

First English Edition 1873
New Edition from the Enlarged

German Edition 1890

Cheaper Re-issue of the same 1900

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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

PART III. THE IMPERIAL PERIOD.

271. General Survey of the Imperial Period, p. 1.

A. THE SILVER AGE OF ROMAN LITERATURE.
FIRST CENTURY OF THE EMPIRE, A.D. 14-117.

272. General view, p. 2.

1. PERIOD OF THE JULIAN Dynasty, a.d. 14-68,

273. Summary, p. 7.

a. The reign of Tiberius, A.D. 14-37.

275, Members of the

274. Literature and writers of this period, p. 7. Imperial family: Tiberius, Germanicus, p. 8. 276. Orators and rhetoricians: Votienus Montanus, Mam. Scaurus, Domitius Afer etc., p. 11. 277. Historians: Cremutius Cordus, Aufidius Bassus etc., p. 14. 278. Velleius Paterculus, p. 15. V 279. Valerius Maximus, p. 19. 280. A. Cornelius Celsus, p. 22. 281. Jurists: Masurius Sabinus, Nerva etc., p. 25. Remmius Palaemon, Nisus etc., p. 26, Atticus and Graecinus, p. 28.

p. 38.

282. Grammarians: Julius Modestus. 283. Antonius Castor, Apicius, Julius 284/Phaedrus, Pomponius Secundus, p. 29.

b. The reigns of Caligula, Claudius and Nero, A.D. 37-68,

291.

285. Literature and writers, p. 33. 286. Members of the Imperial family: Claudius, Agrippina, Nero, p. 35. 287L, Annaeus Seneca, his life and character, 288. Literary characteristics of Seneca, p. 41. 289. Seneca's prose writings, p. 43. 290. Seneca's poetical writings, esp. his tragedies, p. 48. Historians: Gaetulicus, Nonianus, Corbulo, Bocchus, p. 52. 292, Curtius Rufus, P. 54. 293. Columella, p. 57. 294. Scribonius Largus and other medical writers, p. 59. 295. Asconius, p. 61. 296. Pomponius Mela, p. 64. 297. Orators and rhetoricians: Vibius Crispus, Eprius Marcellus, Julius Africanus, Galerius Trachalus, Verginius Flavus etc., p. 65. 298. Jurists: Proculus, Nerva filius, Cassius Longinus, Sex. Pedius etc., p. 67. philosophers: Cornutus, Musonius, Thrasea Paetus, Helvidius 300, 1. Valerius Probus, p. 72. 302. Persius Flaccus, p. 75. 301. Caesius Bassus and other poets, p. 82, 305 Petronius, p. 84. purnius Siculus, panegyricus in Pisonem, p. 87. 307, 8. The didactic poem Aetna. Lucilius Junior, p. 90. 309. Poems of the cod. Voss. 86, p. 93.

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299. Teachers and Priscus etc., p. 68. 303. Lucan, p. 78. v 306. Cal