Identifier: selectionsfromro00livy (find matches)
Title: Selections from Roman historical literature
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Livy. Ab urbe condita libri Sallust, 86-34 B.C. De Catilinae coniuratione Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae Scoon, Robert Maxwell, 1886- ed Jones, Charles Hodge, 1878- ed Mierow, Charles Christopher, b. 1883, ed
Subjects: Catiline, ca. 108-62 B.C Cicero, Marcus Tullius Statesmen Authors, Latin Latin language
Publisher: Boston, New York, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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CHRISTOPHER MIEROW, Ph.D. INSTRUCTORS IN CLASSICS IN PRINCETONUNIVERSITY ^c ALLYN AND BACONBoston Nein gorit dijicago ffw\ COPYRIGHT, 1915, BYALLYN AND BACON. Norfooofi IPreas J. S. Cushing Co. — Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. SEP 30 1915©CI.A410740 PREFACE This book has been prepared for use in the freshmanclass at Princeton. The main motive for its preparationwas the desire for a new selection of passages to be read,without the necessity of using several textbooks in oneterm. In order to avoid excessive bulk, no Introductions havebeen included in the volume. The annotation of Part One is by Mr. Scoon, of Part Twoby Mr. Mierow, and of Part Three by Mr. Jones. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Latin Selections PAGE Part One : Livys History of Rome 1 Part Two : Sallusts Catiline 72 Part Three : Ciceros Letters 105 Notes On Livy 151 On Sallust . . . , 211 On Cicero 240 Maps Italy Frontispiece Vicinity of Rome vi Rome under the Kings 150 Plan of the Battle of the Metaurus .... 193
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LATIN SELECTIONS PART ONE TITI LIVIAB URBE CONDITA LIBRI Beginning of the Republic. Expulsion of the Tarquins and confis-cation of their property. Plots for their restoration. Liberi iain hinc populi Romani res pace belloquegestas, aimuos niagistratus imperiaque legum potentioraquam honiinum peragam. Quae libertas ut laetior esset,proxumi regis superbia fecerat. Nam priores ita regnarunt,ut haud inmerito omnes deinceps conditores partium certe 5urbis, quas novas ipsi sedes ab se auctae multitudinis addi-derunt, numerentur. Neque ambigitur, quin Brutus idem,qui tantum gloriae Superbo exaeto rege meruit, pessimopublico id facturus fuerit, si libertatis inmaturae cupidinepriorum regum alicui regnum extorsisset. Quid enim fu- 10turum fuit, si ilia pastorum convenarumque plebs, transfugaex suis populis, sub tutela inviolati templi aut libertatemaut certe inpunitatem adepta, soluta regio metu, agitaricoepta esset tribuniciis procellis et in aliena urbe cumpatribus serere certamina, priusqua

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