Description
Book SynopsisFirst published by Macmillan in 1972 as a sequel to the successful
Two Centuries of Roman Poetry, this volume is also designed to introduce students to a wider range of Latin prose than they would normally encounter in a single-author prescription. From the first century BC the authors represented are Cicero (including letters and philosophy as well as oratory) Sallust, Livy and Cornelius Nepos; from silver Latin of the first century AD, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus and the younger Pliny. Apart from the range of prose styles and genres included, all the passages are chosen for their intrinsic interest: Tacitus on the British (
Agricola), Petronius on the werewolf (
Satyricon), Livy on Hannibal in the alps (Book XXX) Taciltus on the death of Agrippina (Annals XIV), Pliny on the landscape at the source of the Clitumnus (Letters 8, 8). There are extensive notes on language, content and a full vocabulary.
Table of ContentsPreface How To Read Latin Putting Latin Prose To Work Table of Dates Part I 1 CICERO 'Brave Men Despise Death' (Tusculan Disputations I, 96-102) 2 CORNELIUS NEPOS The Life of Aristides 3 SALLUST The Early History of Rome (Catiline 6, 7, 9) 4 LIVY How Servius Tullius Became King of Rome (I, 39-4I) 5 PETRONIUS The Werewolf (Satyricon 6I, 6-62) 6 SENECA Thoughts in a Tunnel (Epistulae Morales 57) 7 PLINY THE YOUNGER PAGE (a) A Mysterious Spring (4, 30) 6I (b) The Source of the Clitumnus (S, S) 64 8. TACITUS Britain and the British (Agricola I0-12) Part II 9 CICERO (a) An Orator Defies Death (Philippic II, I IS to end) (b) Ethics of a Salesman (De Officiis III, 54-55) (c) Domestic Design (Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem III I, I-2, 4-5) (d) Domestic Discord (Ad Atticum V, r, 3-4) (e) Concern for the Health of a Former Slave (Ad Familiares XVI, 4, r-3) (f) An Author's Lapse (Ad Atticum XVI, 6, 4) 10 CORNELIUS NEPOS Hannibal's Adventures after the Defeat of Carthage (Hannibal9-rr) 11 SALLUST Caesar and Cato Compared (Catiline 53, 6 and 54) 12 LIVY Hannibal at the Summit of the Alps (XXI, 35, 4-37) ro7 13 PETRONIUS A Proud Father (Satyricon 46) III 14 SENECA The Psychology of Noise (Epistulae Morales s6, r-6, 14 to end) II4 15 PLINY THE YOUNGER (a) The First Grammar School at Comum (4, 13) uS (b) Convalescence of a Sick Slave (5, 19) 122 16 TACITUS A Murder Ship Miscarries (Annals XIV, NOTES Vocabulary
