Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Students, Second Edition

by Mason Hammond, Anne Amory

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674254305
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	07/10/1967
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	987,868
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mason Hammond was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University.

Anne Amory teaches Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

PART I: SELECTIONS 1-48: PROSE

• 1. Aeneas in Italiam advenit, Origo. 50 words


• 2. Rex Latinus Aeneam recipit, Origo. 60 words


• 3. Bellum Turni cum Aenea, Origo. 95 words


• 4. Roma condita, Liber. 130 words


• 5. Tarquinii expelluntur, Liber. 150 words


• 6. Horaii atque Mucii res fortiter gestae, Liber. 160 words


• 7. Facinus Appii Claudii, Liber. 125 words


• 8. Roma a Gallis capta, Liber. 135 words


• 9A. Victoria Pyrrhi, Liber. 80 words


• 9B. Fortitudo Reguli, Liber. 90 words


• 10. Hannibalis res gestae, Liber. Eutropius. 235 words


• 11. Hannibalis virtutes et vitia, A. Cicero. 65 words, B. Livy. 90 words


• 12. Scipionis Africani vita, Liber. 215 words


• 13. Catonis ingenium, Composite. 205 words


• 14. Cato senex, Cicero. 225 words


• 15A. Graecia liberate, Valerius Maximus. 80 words


• 15B. Paulli victoria et triumphus, Velleius. 160 words


• 15C. Genealogical Charts


• 16A. Carthago Numantiaque a Scipione deletae, Velleius, Livy. 125 words


• 16B. Scipionis virtus et humanitas, Composite. 135 words


• 17. Rei publicae Romanae vitia, A. Sallust. 165 words. B. Velleius. 45 words. C. Tacitus. 55 words


• 18. Tiberii Gracchi vita et mors, Velleius, Valerius Maximus. 200 words


• 19. Gaii Gracchi tribunatus et exitus, Cicero. 165 words.


• 20B. Sallustii de Gracchis sentential, Sallust. 8 words.


• 21. Marius consulatum petit, Sallust. 250 words


• 22. Marii consulatus multiplicati, Sallust, Velleius. 215 words


• 23. Bellum Sociale vel Italicum, Floras, Velleius. 210 words


• 24. Bellum civile primum, a Marianis atque Sulla gestum, Velleius, Florus. 255 words


• 25. Marii et Cinnae domination, Velleius, Florus. 265 words


• 26. Sullana victoria et dictatura, Velleius. 225 words


• 27. Ciceronis de Mario, Cinna, et Sulla duae sententiae, Cicero. A. 70 words. B. 105 words. Senecae de Sullae crudelitate sentential, C. Seneca. 70 words


• 28. Bella post Sullae mortem usque ad consulatum Crassi Pompeiique, Composite. 285 words


• 29. Pompeius, imperator eximius, praedones superat, Cicero. 290 words


• 30. Pompeii extraordinaria imperia, Cicero. 255 words


• 31. Cicero fabulam de quaestura sua narrat, Cicero. 295 words


• 32. Cicero de consulatu suo, Cicero. A. 170 words. B. 90 words


• 33. Gains ulius Caesar, Velleius, Suetonius. 300 words


• 34A. Catonis stoici mores, Cicero. 155 words


• 34B. Caesaris coin Catone comparatio, Sallust. 142 words


• 35A. Prior Triumviratus initus est, Velleius. 90 words


• 35B. Cicero se cum Triumviris coniungere non vult, Cicero. 80 words


• 35C. Cicero totam rem public gestae, Cicero. 125 words


• 36B. Inimicitia Clodii cum Cicerone, Velleius. 125 words


• 36C. Cicero tie suo exsilio, Cicero. 60 words


• 37. M. Cicero S.D. L. Lucceio Q.F., Cicero. 330 words


• 38. De belli civilis secundi causis, A. Caelius apud Ciceronem. 195 words. B. Caesar. 90 words


• 39. Belli civilis secundi initia, Velleius, Suetonius. 325 words


• 40. Proelium Pharsalicum, Caesar. 320 words


• 41. Exitus Pompeii Catonisque, Composite. 305 words


• 42A. Caesaris dictatoris honores immodici, Suetonius. 170 words


• 42B. Ciceronis in Antonium invectio, Cicero. 160 words


• 43A. Caesaris caedes, Suetonius. 235 words


• 43B. Ciceronis de Caesaris caede duae sententiae, Cicero. 85 words


• 44. Ciceronis proscripti mors, Seneca Rhetor (from Livy). 295 words


• 45. Pugna Philippica, Velleius, Suetonius. 320 words


• 46. Bellum Actiacum, Composite. 325 words


• 47A. Rerum gestarum divi Augusti capita selecta, Augustus. 240 words


• 47B. Pax Augusta, Velleius. 120 words


• 48. Praefatio Annalium Cornelii Taciti, Tacitus. 280 words

PART II: SELECTIONS 49-90: PROSE AND VERSE

• 49. Aeneas, in Latium advectus, Latinos bello superat, Ovid. 95 words


• 50. Septem montes urbis Romae, Composite. 145 words


• 51. Romulus, augurio victor, Romam condit, Ovid.
  
• 53. Servii Tullii omen, regnum, caedes, Liber. 165 words


• 54. Tullia virum exstimulat, Ovid. 140 words.


• 55. Aeneae clipei non enarrabile textum, Vergil. 145 worth


• 56. Alter consul tandem de plebe creatus, Livy. l90 words


• 57. Appii Claudii Caeci mores, Livy. 180 words.


• 58. Colloquium inter Hannibalem et Scipionem fictum, Livy. 180 words


• 59A. Hannibalis exitus, Livy. 65 words


• 59B. Hannibalis exemplum gloriae vanitatem declarat, Juvenal. 140 words


• 60. Versus ex Ennii Annalibus (9 passages), Ennius. 190 words


• 61. Vergilius Ennii imitator (3 parallels), Ennius, Vergil. 210 words


• 62. Eloquentia Gracchorum, Quintilian, Cicero. 225 words


• 63. Marii apud populum contio, Sallust. 235 words


• 64A. Ciceronis de Mario sententia, Cicero. 90 words


• 64B. Marii fortuna, Lucan. 120 words


• 65. De Sullae natura cultuque, SaIlust. 255 words


• 66. Proscriptio Sullana, Lucan. 230 words


• 67. Cicero Verrem accusans inimicitias optimatium suscipit, Cicero. 265 words


• 68A. Iurgia Luculli atque Pompeii, Velleius. 140 words


• 68B. Luculli res gestae, Cicero. 130 words


• 69. Venus omnium animantium genetrix, Lucretius. 255 wards


• 70A. Mors neque miseranda neque deflenda est, Lucretius. 125 words


• 70B. Mors omnibus aeque stabilita timenda no Catilinam invehit, Cicero. 325 words


• 72. Catilinae ingenium, Cicero. 305 words


• 73. Catulli carmina varia (6 poems), Catullus. 275 words


• 74. Lesbia (5 poems), Catullus. 275 words


• 75. Bellum Gallicum Caesare imperatore gestum, Cicero. 310 words


• 76. Cicero optimates definit:, Cicero. 260 words


• 77. Pompeii Caesarisque ingenia a Lucano descripta, Lucan. 255 words


• 78. Magni ranks infamis, Lucan. 250 words


• 79A. De Caesaris eloquentia commentariisque, Composite. 160 words


• 79B. De Ciceronis eloquentia, Quintilian, JuvenaI. 140 words


• 80. Caesar post caedem signis diris portentam deus fit, Ovid. 250 words


• 81. Matius mortem Caesaris amici dolet, Matius apud Ciceronem. 300 words


• 82. Ciceronis laudes, A. Velleius. 125 words, B. St. Jerome. 120 words, C. Petrarch. 95 words


• 83A. Proscriptio secunda, Velleius. 40 words


• 83B. Laudatio matronae Romanae ignotae, Laudatio funebris (dicta Laus Turiae). 260 words


• 84. Meliboeus a Tityrus, Vergil. 285 words


• 85. Novus ordo saeculorum, Vergil. 270 words


• 86. Horatii carmina Actiaca (2 poems), Horace. 155 words, 130 words


• 87. Horatii carmina varia (5 poems), Horace. 300 words


• 88. Expedit Anchises Itala de gente nepotes etc., Vergil. 295 words


• 89A. Vaticinationes Isaiae, Vulgate Bible. 190 wo words


• 90. Iesu Nativitus, Vulgate Bible (Luke). 315 words

• Metrical Schemes


• List of Sources


• Index of Authors and Works


• Vocabulary