The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
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He should ask whether the work has been completed in good time and whether what is left uncompleted can be finished.
the owner of a farm must be a seller and not a purchaser.
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- CATO, THE CENSORSample
- OF WORK ON A ROMAN FARM[2]
- CICERO
- THE BLESSINGS OF OLD AGE[4]
- ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER TULLIA[22]
- OF BRAVE AND ELEVATED SPIRITS[23]
- OF SCIPIO'S DEATH AND OF FRIENDSHIP[28]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JULIUS CÆSAR
- THE BUILDING OF THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE RHINE[34]
- THE INVASION OF BRITAIN[36]
- OVERCOMING THE NERVII[44]
- THE BATTLE OF PHARSALIA AND THE DEATH OF POMPEY[46] (48 b.c.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- SALLUST
- THE GENESIS OF CATILINE[59]
- THE FATE OF THE CONSPIRATORS[62]
- FOOTNOTES:
- LIVY
- HORATIUS COCLES AT THE BRIDGE[68] (About 510 b.c.)
- HANNIBAL'S CROSSING OF THE ALPS[70] (218 b.c.)
- HANNIBAL AND SCIPIO AT ZAMA[72] (202 b.c.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- SENECA
- OF THE WISE MAN[76]
- OF CONSOLATION FOR THE LOSS OF FRIENDS[78]
- TO NERO ON CLEMENCY[82]
- THE PILOT[84]
- OF A HAPPY LIFE[85]
- FOOTNOTES:
- PLINY THE ELDER
- THE QUALITIES OF THE DOG[86]
- THREE GREAT ARTISTS OF GREECE[93]
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ORATOR MUST BE A GOOD MAN[100]
- FOOTNOTES:
- TACITUS
- FROM REPUBLICAN TO IMPERIAL ROME[102]
- THE FUNERAL OF GERMANICUS[106] (19 a.d.)
- THE DEATH OF SENECA[113] (65 a.d.)
- THE BURNING OF ROME BY ORDER OF NERO[116] (64 a.d.)
- THE BURNING OF THE CAPITOL AT ROME[125] (69 a.d.)
- THE SIEGE OF CREMONA[128] (69 a.d.)
- AGRICOLA[132]
- FOOTNOTES:
- PLINY THE YOUNGER
- OF THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS PROVINCE[137]
- TO TACITUS ON THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS[139] (79 a.d.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- SUETONIUS
- THE LAST DAYS OF AUGUSTUS[146] (14 a.d.)
- THE GOOD DEEDS OF NERO[150]
- THE DEATH OF NERO[155] (68 a.d.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- MARCUS AURELIUS
- HIS DEBT TO OTHERS[158]
- FOOTNOTES: