Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Students, Second Edition
by Mason Hammond and Anne Amory
Harvard University Press, 1990 eISBN: 978-0-674-25432-9 | Paper: 978-0-674-00600-3
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK This reader consists of 90 selections illustrating the history of Rome from the myth of Aeneas to the founding of the Augustan Principate. The selections have been chosen with three aims in mind: gradual increase in length and difficulty, continuity of subject matter, and stylistic variety. Historical background is provided in the prefaces to the selections. The updated letterpress edition is more convenient to use than its predecessor of 1962. The notes have been extensively revised and the vocabulary has been newly compiled.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
PART I
Selections 1–48: Prose
1
Aeneas in Italiam advenit
2
Rex Latinus Aeneam recipit
3
Bellum Tumi cum Aenea
4
Roma condita
5
Tarquinii expelluntur
6
Horatii atque Mucii res fortiter gestae
7
Facinus Appii Claudii
8
Roma a Gallis capta
9 A.
Victoria Pyrrhi
B.
Fortitudo Reguli
10
Hannibalis res gestae
11
Hannibalis virtutes et vitia
12
Scipionis Africani vita
13
Catonis ingenium
14
Cato senex
15 A.
Graecia liberata
B.
Paulli victoria et triumphus
Genealogical Charts
16 A.
Carthago Numantiaque a Scipione deletae
B.
Scipionis virtus et humanitas
17
Rei publicae Romanae vitia
18
Tiberii Gracchi vita et mors
19
Gaii Gracchi tribunatus et exitus
20 A.
Ciceronis de Gracchis sententia
B.
Sallustii de Gracchis sententia
21
Marius consulatum petit
22
Marii consulatus multiplicati
23
Bellum Sociale vel Italicum
24
Bellum civile primum, a Marianis atque Sulla gestum
25
Marii et Cinnae dominatio
26
Sullana victoria et dictatura
27
Ciceronis de Mario, Cinna, et Sulla duae sententiae
Senecae de Sullae crudelitate sententia
28
Bella post Sullae mortem usque ad consulatum Crassi Pompeiique
29
Pompeius, imperator eximius, praedones superat
30
Pompeii extraordinaria imperia
31
Cicero fabulam de quaestura sua narrat
32
Cicero de consulatu suo
33
Gains lulius Caesar
34 A.
Catonis stoici mores
B.
Caesaris cum Catone comparatio
35 A.
Prior Triumviratus initus est
B.
Cicero se cum Triumviris coniungere non vult
C.
Cicero totam rem publicam perisse queritur
36 A.
Caesaris res gestae
B.
Inimicitia Clodii cum Cicerone
C.
Cicero de suo exsilio
37
M. Cicero S.D. L. Lucceio Q.F.
38
De belli civilis secundi causis
39
Belli civilis secundi initia
40
Proelium Pharsalicum
41
Exitus Pompeii Catonisque
42 A.
Caesaris dictatoris honores immodici
B.
Ciceronis in Antonium invectio
43 A.
Caesaris caedes
B.
Ciceronis de Caesaris caede duae sententiae
44
Ciceronis proscripti mors
45
Pugna Philippica
46
Bellum Actiacum
47 A.
Rerum gestarum dim Augusti capita selecta
B.
Pax Augusta
48
Praefatio Annalium Cornelii Taciti
PART II
Selections 49–90: Prose and Verse
49
Aeneas, in Latium advectus, Latinos bello super at
Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Students, Second Edition
by Mason Hammond and Anne Amory
Harvard University Press, 1990 eISBN: 978-0-674-25432-9 Paper: 978-0-674-00600-3
This reader consists of 90 selections illustrating the history of Rome from the myth of Aeneas to the founding of the Augustan Principate. The selections have been chosen with three aims in mind: gradual increase in length and difficulty, continuity of subject matter, and stylistic variety. Historical background is provided in the prefaces to the selections. The updated letterpress edition is more convenient to use than its predecessor of 1962. The notes have been extensively revised and the vocabulary has been newly compiled.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
PART I
Selections 1–48: Prose
1
Aeneas in Italiam advenit
2
Rex Latinus Aeneam recipit
3
Bellum Tumi cum Aenea
4
Roma condita
5
Tarquinii expelluntur
6
Horatii atque Mucii res fortiter gestae
7
Facinus Appii Claudii
8
Roma a Gallis capta
9 A.
Victoria Pyrrhi
B.
Fortitudo Reguli
10
Hannibalis res gestae
11
Hannibalis virtutes et vitia
12
Scipionis Africani vita
13
Catonis ingenium
14
Cato senex
15 A.
Graecia liberata
B.
Paulli victoria et triumphus
Genealogical Charts
16 A.
Carthago Numantiaque a Scipione deletae
B.
Scipionis virtus et humanitas
17
Rei publicae Romanae vitia
18
Tiberii Gracchi vita et mors
19
Gaii Gracchi tribunatus et exitus
20 A.
Ciceronis de Gracchis sententia
B.
Sallustii de Gracchis sententia
21
Marius consulatum petit
22
Marii consulatus multiplicati
23
Bellum Sociale vel Italicum
24
Bellum civile primum, a Marianis atque Sulla gestum
25
Marii et Cinnae dominatio
26
Sullana victoria et dictatura
27
Ciceronis de Mario, Cinna, et Sulla duae sententiae
Senecae de Sullae crudelitate sententia
28
Bella post Sullae mortem usque ad consulatum Crassi Pompeiique
29
Pompeius, imperator eximius, praedones superat
30
Pompeii extraordinaria imperia
31
Cicero fabulam de quaestura sua narrat
32
Cicero de consulatu suo
33
Gains lulius Caesar
34 A.
Catonis stoici mores
B.
Caesaris cum Catone comparatio
35 A.
Prior Triumviratus initus est
B.
Cicero se cum Triumviris coniungere non vult
C.
Cicero totam rem publicam perisse queritur
36 A.
Caesaris res gestae
B.
Inimicitia Clodii cum Cicerone
C.
Cicero de suo exsilio
37
M. Cicero S.D. L. Lucceio Q.F.
38
De belli civilis secundi causis
39
Belli civilis secundi initia
40
Proelium Pharsalicum
41
Exitus Pompeii Catonisque
42 A.
Caesaris dictatoris honores immodici
B.
Ciceronis in Antonium invectio
43 A.
Caesaris caedes
B.
Ciceronis de Caesaris caede duae sententiae
44
Ciceronis proscripti mors
45
Pugna Philippica
46
Bellum Actiacum
47 A.
Rerum gestarum dim Augusti capita selecta
B.
Pax Augusta
48
Praefatio Annalium Cornelii Taciti
PART II
Selections 49–90: Prose and Verse
49
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