+G. Middleton+ and +T. R. Mills+. Handbook to Latin Authors,
London and New York, 1896, Macmillan.
+W. Y. Sellar.+ The Roman Poets of the Republic, Oxford, 2d ed.
1889; Poets of the Augustan Age (Virgil), Oxford, 1891; Horace and
the Elegiac Poets, Oxford, 1892.
+R. Y. Tyrrell.+ Latin Poetry, Boston, 1895, Houghton & Mifflin.
+G. F. Aly.+ Geschichte der römischen Litteratur, Berlin, 1894, R.
Gaertner.
+G. Bernhardy.+ Grundriss der römischen Litteratur, 5th ed. Halle,
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+W. S. Teuffel.+ Geschichte der römischen Litteratur, 5th ed.
revised by L. Schwabe, Leipzig, 1890, Teubner; translated by G.
C. W. Warr, 2 vols., London, 1891, Bell. [Especially good for
bibliography.]
+M. Schanz.+ Römische Litteraturgeschichte, Munich, 2d ed.
1898-1901, Beck. 3 vols. (to Constantine); vol. iv (to Justinian)
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+O. Ribbeck.+ Geschichte der römischen Dichtung. 3 vols.
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literature of the imperial period is to be treated in subsequent
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+G. Michaut.+ Le Génie latin. Paris, 1900, Fontemoing.
[Interesting and suggestive.]
A useful series of books called “Ancient Classics for English
Readers” contains Cæsar, by _Anthony Trollope_; Catullus,
Tibullus, and Propertius, by _James Davies_; Cicero, by _W. L.
Collins_; Horace, by _Theodore Martin_; Juvenal, by _E. Walford_;
Livy, by _W. L. Collins_; Lucretius, by _Mallock_; Ovid, by _A.
Church_; Plautus and Terence, by _W. L. Collins_; Pliny, by _A.
Church_ and _W. J. Brodribb_; Tacitus, by _W. B. Donne_; and
Virgil, by _W. L. Collins_. These are not translations, but
essays illustrated by extracts. Published in America by the J. B.
Lippincott Co.
COLLECTIONS
[This list contains the titles of collections referred to below. Many
other collections exist, the titles of which are to be found in larger
bibliographies.]
+Poetae Latini Minores+, ed. _Baehrens_. 5 vols. Leipzig,
1879-’83, Teubner series.
+Fragmenta Poetarum Romanorum+, ed. _Baehrens_, Leipzig, 1886,
Teubner series.
+Corpus Poetarum Latinorum+, ed. _J. P. Postgate_; parts i, ii,
(vol. i), and iii. London, 1893-1900, Bell.
+Patrologia Latina+, ed. _Migne_, Paris. [221 vols. containing the
works of ecclesiastical writers of Latin from the Apostolic times
to those of Pope Innocent III.]
+Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum.+ [A series of
ecclesiastical writings, published by the Imperial Academy at
Vienna, begun in 1866 and not yet completed.]
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