Classics in Translation, Volume II: Latin Literature

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ROMAN CULTURE: AN ESSAY, by Paul MacKendrick 3 THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF PLAUTUS, translated by Harry J. Leon 13 THE WOMAN FROM ANDROS OF TERENCE, translated by R. I. Wilfred Westgate and Rogers V. Scudder 38 TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS ON THE NATURE OF THINGS, translated by Alban D. Winspear 60 INVOCATION TO VENU8--LUCRETIUS GIVES REASONS FOR HIS OPPOSITION TO ROMAN INSTITUTIONAL RELIGION-THE CREED OF RELIGION VS. THE CREED OF SCIENCE-THE POET'S THEME-THE TRANQUIL LIFE-THE MOVEMENT OF THE ATOM8--THE SWERVE OF THE ATOM8--ATOMS VARY IN SHAPE-IN PRAISE OF HIS TEACHER EPICURUS: THE MORAL VALUE OF HIS PHILOSOPHYLUCRETIUS WITH HIS ARGUMENTS TRIES TO BANISH THE FEAR OF DEATHTHE ARGUMENT AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH, CONTINUED-LUCRETIUS DISCOURSES ON SEX AND LOVE-IN PRAISE OF EPICURUS AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN MORAL ENLIGHTENMENT-THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK-THE WORLD IS NOT ETERNAL OR DIVINE-THE LIFE OF PRIMITIVE MAN-THE EVOLUTION OF MAN AND HUMAN INSTITUTION8--0RIGIN OF BELIEF IN THE GOD8--THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS, CONTINUED-THE GREAT PLAGUE AT ATHENS SELECTIONS FROM SALLUST, translated by Paul MacKendrick 85 The lugurthine War 86 The Conspiracy of Catiline 92 To Caesar onthe Commonwealth, II 99 SELECTIONS FROM THE SPEECHES OF CICERO, translated by Norman J. DeWitt 100 Against Rullus 102 In Defense of Cluentius 106 In Defense of Sestius 112 In Defense of Murena 115 In Defense of Caelius 120 In Defense of Milo 126 x TABLE OF CONTENTS Against Antony 134 Servius Sulpicius Rufus: In Memoriam 140 SELECTIONS FROM CICERO'S PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS, translated by Paul MacKendrick 146 Scipio's Dream, from On the Republic 147 On the Laws 153 ~~a~~~M~ W Tusculan Disputations 171 On the Nature of the Gods 176 On Divination 185 On Old Age 187 On Friendship 190 ~D~ W3 SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF CATULLUS, translated by Eric A. Havelock 204 THE LANGUAGE OF LYRIC Dedication to Cornelius Nepos, Historian 0/ Cisalpine Gaul-Drinking Song-Salute to Sirmio 205 THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE Bid Me to Live-Lesbia's Kisses-Le.~bia's Question-When Lesbia Plays-Lesbia's Tears-Lesbia's Rivals-My True Love Hath My Heart-Amantium Irae-Reunion 206 LOVE AND DEATH World Without Erul-For Quintilia Dead 208 THE FLOWER CUT DOWN In Memoriam. An Epistle to Allius in Record of Friendship-One Word Profaned-Woman's Faith-Miser Catul'e-The Office of My Heart-The Undying Fire-Borulage-lourney's End-She That I Loved-The Last Word-Swan Song 209 SELECTIONS FROM THE GEORGICS OF VERGIL, translated by Robert Fitzgerald and Smith Palmer Bovie 213 From The First Georgie 213 From The Second Georgie 217 SELECTIONS FROM THE AENEID OF VERGIL, translated by Rolfe Humphries 219 THE STORM. DlDQ--DlDO'S I'l.SSION AND DEATH-THE FUNERAL GAMES FOR ANCHISE8--THE UNDERWORLD-AENEAS IN ITALY-THE SHIELD OF AENEAS-NISUS AND EUPYALU8--TURNUS IN BATTLE-DUELS: PALLAS, LAUSUS, MEZEN· TIU8--DRANCES AND TURNUS--CAMILLA-AENEAS KILLS TURNUS IN SINGLE COMBAT SELECTIONS FROM THE ODES OF HORACE, translated by the Sargent Prize Translators, Paul Shorey, and Goldwin Smith 264 TABLE OF CONTENTS xi To Pyrrha 265 IgTWrance of the Future is Bliss 265 The Pure in Heart 265 To a Coy Girl 266 A Hymn to Fortune 266 The Death of Cleopatra 267 Simplicity 267 A Mind Unmoved 267 Welcome Home 268 The Golden Mean 268 A Narrow Escape 268 The Moving Finger Writes 269 Regulus 269 Wealth in Poverty 270 To a Cask of Wine Made in the Year in which Horace Was Born 271 To Augustus 271 Nature and Man 272 SELECTIONS FROM OVID, translated by Dorrance S. White 273 From the Metamorphoses 273 From the Fasti 277 SELECTIONS FROM LIVY'S HISTORY OF ROME, translated by Inez Scott Ryberg 280 THE PREFACE TO THE HISTORY-THE BIRTH OF ROMULUS AND REMUS AT ALBA LONGA-THE FOUNDING OF A NEW CITY BY ROMULUS AND REMUS-THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PLACE OF REFUGE-THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RO· MAN SENATE-THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN-IN THE WAR ENSUING, THE WOMEN PUT AN END TO THE FIGHTING-AN ETRUSCAN BECOMES KING IN ROME-THE REIGN OF TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS-THE CAPTURE OF GABII BY TREACHERY-THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA AND THE OVERTHROW OF THE MONARCHY -THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE PATRICIANS AND PLEBEIANS-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OFFICE OF TRIBUNE OF THE PLEBS...