The GERMANIA and AGRICOLA Of Caius Cornelius Tacitus With Notes for Colleges By W. S. Tyler Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages in Amherst College PREFACE. This edition of the Germania and Agricola of Tacitus is designed to meet the following wants, which, it is believed, have been generally felt by teachers and pupils […]

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 […]

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 […]

PLATO’S APOLOGY, CRITO AND PHÆDO OF SOCRATES. Literally Translated By HENRY CARY, M.A., Worcester College, Oxford With An Introduction By EDWARD BROOKS, JR. CONTENTS. Introduction The Apology Of Socrates Introduction to the crito Crito; Or, The Duty Of A Citizen Introduction To The Phædo Phædo; Or, The Immortality Of The Soul INTRODUCTION. Of all writers […]

TIMAEUS   by Plato   Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Section 4. Section 5. Section 6. Section 7. Section 8. TIMAEUS INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had […]

SYMPOSIUM   By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION. Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author […]