The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
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- NEW YORK AND LONDONSample
- OF WORK ON A ROMAN FARM
- THE BLESSINGS OF OLD AGE
- Preface
- ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER TULLIA
- OF BRAVE AND ELEVATED SPIRITS
- OF SCIPIO'S DEATH AND OF FRIENDSHIP
- Preface
- Chapter
- THE INVASION OF BRITAIN
- OVERCOMING THE NERVII
- Preface
- THE GENESIS OF CATILINE
- THE FATE OF THE CONSPIRATORS
- HORATIUS COCLES AT THE BRIDGE
- HANNIBAL'S CROSSING OF THE ALPS
- HANNIBAL AND SCIPIO AT ZAMA
- Preface
- OF THE WISE MAN
- OF CONSOLATION FOR THE LOSS OF FRIENDS
- TO NERO ON CLEMENCY
- THE PILOT
- OF A HAPPY LIFE
- Preface
- THE QUALITIES OF THE DOG
- THREE GREAT ARTISTS OF GREECE
- THE ORATOR MUST BE A GOOD MAN
- FROM REPUBLICAN TO IMPERIAL ROME
- THE FUNERAL OF GERMANICUS
- THE DEATH OF SENECA
- Chapter
- THE BURNING OF THE CAPITOL AT ROME
- THE SIEGE OF CREMONA
- OF THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS PROVINCE
- TO TACITUS ON THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS
- THE LAST DAYS OF AUGUSTUS
- THE GOOD DEEDS OF NERO
- THE DEATH OF NERO
- Preface
- HIS DEBT TO OTHERS