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The Georgics – Virgil

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 […]

The Aeneid – Virgil

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 […]

The Bucolics and Eclogues – Virgil

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 – Seneca

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 […]

Apocolocyntosis – Seneca

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 I – Plato

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 […]

Eryxias – Plato

ERYXIAS   By a Platonic Imitator Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX II. INTRODUCTION. ERYXIAS 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 Platonic dialogues to be assigned […]

Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates – Plato

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 […]

Theaetetus – Plato

THEAETETUS   By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. THEAETETUS INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and […]

Timaeus – Plato

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 […]