THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS; WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, NOTES, SUPPLEMENTS, &c. BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ. Præcipuum munus annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis dictis factisque ex posteritate et infamiâ metus sit. TACITUS, Annales, iii. s. 65. A NEW EDITION, WITH THE AUTHOR’S LAST CORRECTIONS. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. VIII. […]

TACITUS ON GERMANY Translated by Thomas Gordon PREPARER'S NOTE This text was prepared from a 1910 edition, published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York. Contents INTRODUCTORY NOTE TACITUS ON GERMANY INTRODUCTORY NOTE The dates of the birth and death of Tacitus are uncertain, but it is probable that he was born about […]

29 BC   THE GEORGICS by Virgil GEORGIC I GEORGIC II GEORGIC III GEORGIC IV GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thrifty […]

19 BC THE AENEID by Virgil BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV BOOK V BOOK VI BOOK VII BOOK VIII BOOK IX BOOK X BOOK XI BOOK XII BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore. Long […]

37 BC THE ECLOGUES by Virgil ECLOGUE I ECLOGUE II ECLOGUE III ECLOGUE IV ECLOGUE V ECLOGUE VI ECLOGUE VII ECLOGUE VIII ECLOGUE IX ECLOGUE X ECLOGUE I MELIBOEUS TITYRUS MELIBOEUS You, Tityrus, ‘neath a broad beech-canopy Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields, And home’s familiar bounds, […]

L. ANNAEUS SENECA, ON BENEFITS   By Seneca   Edited by Aubrey Stewart PREFACE Seneca, the favourite classic of the early fathers of the church and of the Middle Ages, whom Jerome, Tertullian, and Augustine speak of as “Seneca noster,” who was believed to have corresponded with St. Paul, and upon whom [Footnote: On the […]

SENECA APOCOLOCYNTOSIS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY W.H.D. ROUSE, M.A. LITT. D. MCMXX   INTRODUCTION This piece is ascribed to Seneca by ancient tradition; it is impossible to prove that it is his, and impossible to prove that it is not. The matter will probably continue to be decided by every one according to his […]

ALCIBIADES II   by An Imatator of Plato (see Appendix II) Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX II. ALCIBIADES II APPENDIX II. The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of […]

LESSER HIPPIAS   by Plato (see Appendix I)  Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX I. LESSER HIPPIAS INTRODUCTION. APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian […]

ALCIBIADES I   by Plato (see Appendix I)   Translated by Benjamin Jowett APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later […]