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A History of Roman Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius

By Charles Thomas Cruttwell, M.A. (1877)

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List of Editions Recommended. [7]
For the Early Period

WORDSWORTH. Fragments and Specimens of early Latin. 1874.
LIVIUS ANDRONICUS. H. Duntzer. Berlin. 1835.
NAEVIUS. Ribbeck. "Trag. Lat. Relliquiae", p. 5.
PLAUTUS. Ritschl or Fleckeisen. Unfinished.
ENNIUS. Vahlen. "Ennianae Poeseos Relliquiae."
PACUVIUS. Ribbeck, as above.
TERENCE. Wagner. Cambridge. 1869. Text by Umpfenbach. 1870
TURPILIUS. Fragments in Bothe ("Poet. Scen." V. 2, p. 58-76), and
Ribbeck's "Comic. Lat. Relliq."
THE EARLY HISTORIANS. Peter ("Veterum Historicorum Romanorum
Relliquiae." Lips. 1870).
CATO. De Re Rustica. "Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini,
curante" I. M. Gesnero. Lips. 1735 Vol. 1.
CATO. Fragmenta praeter libros de Re Rustica. Jordan. Lips. 1860.
THE OLD ORATORS TO HORTENSIUS. H. Meyer. "Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta.
Zurich. 1842.
ACCIUS. Tragedies. Fragments in Ribbeck, as above.
-- -- - Praeter Scenica. Lucian Muller. "Lucilii Saturaran Relliquiae."
Lips. 1872. Lachmann.
ATTA. Fragments. Bothe. "Scen. Lat." v. 2, p. 97-102. Ribbeck.
AFRANIUS. Bothe, p. 156-9. Ribbeck.
LUCILIUS. Lucian Muller, as above.
SUEVIUS. Lucian Muller, as above.
ATELLANAE. Fr. in Ribbeck. "Com. Lat. Rel." p. 192.
AUCTOR AD HERENNIUM. Kayser. "Lips." 1854.

For the Golden Age

VARRO. Saturae Menippeae. Riese. Lips. 1865.
-- -- - Antiquities. Fragments in R. Merkel. Introduction to Ovid's "Fasti".
-- -- - De Vita Populi Romani. Fragments in Kettner. Halle. 1863.
-- -- - De Lingua Latina. C. O. Muller. Lips, 1833.
-- -- - De Re Rustica. Gesner, as above. See "Cato".
CICERO. Speeches. G. Long. London. 1862. In four volumes.
-- -- - Verrine Orations. Long, as above. Zumpt. Berlin. 1831.
CICERO. Pro Cluentio. Classen. Bonn. 1831. Ramsay. Clarendon Press.
-- -- - In Catilinam. Halm. Lips.
-- -- - Pro Plancio. E. Wunder. 1830.
-- -- - Pro Murena. Zumpt. Berlin. 1859.
-- -- - Pro Roscio. Buchner. Lips. 1835.
-- -- - Pro Sestio. Halm. Lips. 1845. And Teubner edition.
-- -- - Pro Milone. Orelli. Lips. 1826. School edition by Purton. Cambridge.
1873.
-- -- - Second Philippic, with notes from Halm, by J. E. B. Mayor.
-- -- - De Inventione. Lindemann. Lips. 1829.
-- -- - De Oratore. Ellendt. Konigsberg. 1840.
-- -- - Brutus. Ellendt. 1844.
-- -- - Philosophical Writings. Orelli. Vol. IV.
-- -- - De Finibus. Madvig. Copenhagen. Second Edition. 1871. F. G. Otto.
1839.
-- -- - Academica (with De Fin.). Orelli. Zurich. 1827.
-- -- - Tusculanae Disputationes (with Paradoxa). Orelli. 1829.
-- -- - De Natura Deorum. Schomann. Berlin. 1850.
-- -- - De Senectute. Long. London. 1861.
-- -- - De Amicitia. Nauck. Berlin. 1867.
-- -- - De Officiis. 0. Heine. Berlin. 1857.
-- -- - De Republica. Heinrich. Bonn. 1828.
-- -- - De Legibus. Vahlen. 1871.
-- -- - De Divinatione. Giese. Lips. 1829.
-- -- - Select Letters. Watson. Oxford.
-- -- - Entire Works. Orelli. Zur. 1845. Nobbe. Lips. 1828.
LABERIUS. Ribbeck. "Com. Lot. Relliquiae", p. 237.
FURIUS BIBACULUS. Weichert. "Poet. Lat. Rell.", p. 325.
SYRI. Sententiae. Woelfflin. 1869.
CAESAR. Speeches. Meyer. "Orat. Rom. Fragmenta."
-- -- - Letters. Nipperdey. "Caesar", p. 766-599.
-- -- - Commentaries. Nipperdey. Lips. 1847-1856.
-- -- - Gallic War. Long. London. 1859.
NEPOS. Nipperdey. Lips. 1849. School edition by 0. Browning.
LUCRETIUS. Munro. Cambridge. 1866.
SALLUST. All his extant works. Gerlach. Basle. 1828-31.
VARRO ATACINUS. Fragments in Riese, "Sat. Menippeae."
CHINA. Weichert. "Poetarum Lat. Vitae", p. 187.
CATULLUS. R. Ellis. Oxford. 1867
-- -- - Commentary. R. Ellis. Oxford. 1876.
POLLIO. Fragments in Meyer. "Orat Rom. Fragmenta."
VARIUS. Ribbeck's "Tragic. Lat. Relliquiae."
VIRGIL. Ribbeck. 4 vols. With an Appendix Virgiliana. Conington. 3 vols.
Oxford. A good school edition by Bryce. (Glasgow University Classics.)
London.
HORACE. Orelli. Third edition, 1850. 2 vols. School editions, by Macleane
and Currie, both with good English Notes. Odes and Epodes, by Wickham.
1874.
TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Lachmann. Berlin. 1829.
TIBULLUS. Dissen.
PROPERTIUS. Paley.
OVID. Entire Works. R. Merkel. Lips. 1851. 3 vols.
-- -- - Fasti. Paley.
-- -- - Heroides. Terpstra. 1829. Arthur Palmer. Longman. 1874.
-- -- - Tristia and Ibis. Merkel. 1837.
-- -- - Metamorphoses. Bach. 1831-6. 2 vols.
GRATIUS. Haupt. Lips. 1838. Including the Halieuticon, &c.
MANILIUS. Scaliger. 1579. Bentley. 1739. Jacob. Berlin. 1846.
LIVY. Drakenborg. 7 vols. Teubner text. Weissenbom, with an excellent
German Commentary.
-- -- - Book I. Professor Seeley. Cambridge.
JUSTIN (Trogus). Jeep. Lips. 1859.
VERRIUS FLACCUS. C. O. Muller. Lips. 1839.
VITRUVIUS. Schneider. Lips. 1807. 3 vols. Rose. 1867.
SENECA (the elder). Keissling (Teubner series). Oratorum et Rhetorum
sententiae divisiones colores. Bursian. 1857.

The Period of the Decline

GERMANICUS (translation of Aratus). Breysig. Berlin. 1867.
VELLEIUS. Kritz. Lips. 1840. Halm.
VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Kempf. Berl. 1854.
CELSUS. Daremberg. Lips. Teubner.
PHAEDRUS. Orelli. Zur. 1831. Lucian Muller. 1876.
SENECA. Tragedies. Peiper and Richter. Lips, 1867.
-- -- - Entire Works. Fr. Haase. 3 vols. 1862-71. (Teubner.)
-- -- - Naturales Quaestiones. Koeler. 1818.
CURTIUS. Zumpt. Brunsw. 1849.
COLUMELLA. In Gesner, "Scriptures Rei Rusticae".
MELA. Parthey. Berl. 1867.
VALERIUS PROBUS. In Keil "Grammatici Latini". Vol. I. 1857.
PERSIUS. Jahn. Lips. 1843. Conington. Oxford. 1869.
LUCAN. C. F. Weber. Lips. 1821. C. H. Weisse. Lips. 1835.
PETRONIUS. Bucheler. Berl. 1871. Second edition.
CALPURNIUS. Glaeser. Gottingen. 1842,
ETNA. Munro. Cambridge. 1867.
PLINY. Sillig. Lips. 8 vols.
-- -- - Chrestomathia Pliniana, a useful text-book by Urlichs. Berlin. 1857.
VALERIUS FLACCUS. Lemaire. Paris. 1824. Schenkl. 1871.
SILIUS. Ruperti. Gottingen. 1795.
STATIUS. Silvae. Markland. Lips. 1827.
-- -- - Entire works. Queck. 1854.
-- -- - Thebaid and Achilleid. Vol. I. 0. Muller. Lips. 1871.
MARTIAL. Schneidevin. 1842.
-- -- - Select Epigrams. Paley. London. 1875.
QUINTILIAN. Bonnell. (Teubner.) 1861.
-- -- - Halm. 2 vols. 1869.
-- -- - Lexicon to, by Bonnell. 1834.
FRONTINUS. Text by Dederich, in Teubner edition. 1855.
JUVENAL. Heinrich. Bonn. 1839. Mayor. London. 1872. Vol. I. (for schools).
Otto Iahn. 1868.
TACITUS. Works. Orelli. 1846. Ritter. 1864.
-- -- - Dialogue. Ritter. Bonn. 1836.
-- -- - Agricola. Kritz. Berlin. 1865.
-- -- - Germania. Kritz. Berlin. 1869. Latham. London. 1851.
-- -- - Annales. Nipperdey. Berlin. 1864.
PLINY the younger. Keil. Lips. 1870.
-- -- - Letters. G. E. Gierig. 2 vols. 1800-2.
-- -- - Letters and Panegyric. Gierig. 1806.
SUETONIUS. Roth. Teubner. 1858.
-- -- - Praeter Caesarum Libros. D. Reifferscheid. Lips. 1860.
FLORUS. Jahn. Lips. 1856.
FRONTO. Niebuhr. Berl. 1816. Supplement. 1832. S. A. Naber. (Teubner.)
1867.
PERVIGILIUM VENERIS. Bugheler. 1859. Riese's Anthologia Latina i. p. 144.
GELLIUS. Hertz. Lips. 1853.
GAIUS. Lachmann. Berlin. 1842.
-- -- - Institutes. Poste. Oxf. 1871.
APULEIUS. Hildebrand. Lips. 1842. 2 vols.
ITINERARIUM ANTONINI AUGUSTI ET HIEROSOLYMITANUM. G. Parthey and M.
Finder. Berlin. 1848.

Footnotes

[7] The most convenient and accessible are here recommended, not the most complete or exhaustive. For these the reader is referred to Teuffel's work, from which several of those here mentioned are taken.

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