Selection from the Latin literature of the early Empire, Part A: Inner life

A. C. B Brown

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GEORGII WESLEY JOHNSTON
EX ANNO A.D. MDCCCCVIQUI QUUM
ADANNUM MDCCCCXVIIUSQUE
IN COLLEGIOLINGUAE LATINAE
DOCTOR AUTUNIVERSITATIS
ASSOCIATUS FUISSETPROFESSOR
MENSE MAIOA.D MDCCCCXVII MORTUUS EST
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SELECTION FROM
THE LATINLITERATURE OFTHE
EARLY EMPIRE
EDITED BY
A. C. B. M.A.BROWN,
FEREDAY FELLOW OF ST. COLLEGEJOHN'S
ASSISTANT MASTER AT MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE
PART A : INNER LIFE
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1910M.A.HENRY FROWDE,
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDPUBLISHER
NEW YORKLONDON, EDINBURGH,
TORONTO AND MELBOURNEPREFACE
THIS Selection has been undertaken at the andsuggestion
of the B.with the Rev. Hereford FellowM.A.,help George,
of New to serve as a textbook forCollege, and, primarily,
the Oxford Local Examinations. The text is that of the
Oxford Classical so far as the authors included inTexts,
this book have in that Theseries. textsappeared following
have been kind in cases where noused, by permission,
Oxford Text exists: Friedlander's Ball's SenecaPetronius,
C. F. W. Mueller's
(Ludus), Pliny (Teubner Edition).
The notes do not to deal with ofattempt questions
textual criticism or of The critical results arrivedsyntax.
at the editors of the texts have been taken forby employed
And the best of with ofgranted. way dealing questions
is to refer to one's The of the notessyntax grammar. scope
is therefore limited to the of theexplanation subject-matter.
has been fromAn made to exclude them suchattempt
as be discovered one who is tomay by anythings prepared
use both his and his wits. The small Latin-dictionary
of and has been used asEnglish Dictionary Gepp Haigh
a standard in the amount of that ismeasuring helprough
in a but a few of the less commonforthcoming dictionary,
words which do occur in that book have been inexplained
the in case should be absent from other diction-notes, they
of wholearies. or have beenAnalyses paraphrases passages
in one case on the view that theavoided, except (Juv. vii),
of the sense of whole withoutpuzzling-out passages knowing
is abeforehand what are about valuableexactly they
element in classical A shorttraining. heading has, however,
A 2PREFACE4
been before each to show how it illus-placed passage,
trates the idea of the section in which it isgeneral placed.
It is that this book will not add to the number ofhoped
1
those editions of authors which are constructed theupon
of solutions of allprinciple supplying ready-made difficulties,
thus the of aand Latin to mere effort ofreducing study
exercised inferior materials' Associa-memory upon (Classical
of Curriculation, Report Committee, 1909, p. 14).
I have consulted the standard editions ofthroughout
Horace TacitusJuvenal (Mayor, Hardy), (Wickham),
Friedlander's Tri-'Cena(Furneaux, Spooner, Peterson),
' '
malchionis and Ball's edition of the Ludus of Seneca.',
More is the book indebted in all its toespecially parts
the valuable criticisms and of Mr. tosuggestions George,
haswhom the whole been and of Mr. H. E.submitted,
Fellow of New who has read theButler, College, proofs.CONTENTS
PART A. INNER LIFE
PAGE
PREFACE 3
.8LIST OF CHIEF DATES
INTRODUCTION -9
TEXT :
I. POLITICS
Domitiarfs Terror.Reign of
i. TAC. .Agr. 2, 3, 45, 46 .17
ii. Sat. iv . .21Juv.
The Tacitus.Age of
iii. TAC. Hist. i. 281-4
The theDeification of Emperor.
iv.
. . .14,SENECA, Ludus, 9-12, 15 .33
An Provincial Administration :Episode of
and the Christians.) Trajan,Pliny
y. x. ....PLINY, Ep. 96 97 42(97), (98)
Exile Civilization.from
vi. iii. 2OVID, Tristia, 456 CONTENTS
II. EDUCATION
and New.Roman OldEducation^
i. TAG. Dial. 4728-36
A Liberal Education.
. .ii. HOR. Sat. i. 6 . . . . . .58
III. LITERATURE
The Author to his Book.
PAGE
i. HOR. i. 20 .... .61Ep.
The Recitation.
ii. i .Sat. -63Juv.
iii. i.PLINY, 13 65Ep.
.iv. vi. . . . . . .67 Ep. 15
in Rome.The the LearnedProspects of Professions
v. Sat. vii. .69Juv.
'
The Literature.Inutility* of
vi. TAG. Dial. 839
A Scholar's Life.
.86vii. iii.PLINY, Ep. 5
Death.A Scholar's
vi. 16viii. PLINY, Ep. 90