Transcriber’s Note: Volume 2 is available as Project Gutenberg ebook number 51444. THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D. EDITED BY † T. E. PAGE, C.H., LITT.D. † E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. † W. H. D. ROUSE, LITT.D. L. A. POST, L.H.D. E. H. WARMINGTON, M.A., F.R.HIST.SOC. CLAUDIAN I CLAUDIAN WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY MAURICE PLATNAUER SOMETIME HONORARY SCHOLAR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD ASSISTANT MASTER AT WINCHESTER COLLEGE IN TWO VOLUMES I CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD MCMLXIII _First printed_ 1922 _Reprinted_ 1956, 1963 _Printed in Great Britain_ CONTENTS OF VOLUME I PAGE INTRODUCTION vii POEMS-- PANEGYRIC ON THE CONSULS PROBINUS AND OLYBRIUS 2 THE FIRST BOOK AGAINST RUFINUS-- PREFACE 24 BOOK I 26 THE SECOND BOOK AGAINST RUFINUS-- PREFACE 56 BOOK II 58 THE WAR AGAINST GILDO-- BOOK I 98 AGAINST EUTROPIUS-- BOOK I 138 BOOK II: PREFACE 178 BOOK II 184 FESCENNINE VERSES IN HONOUR OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE EMPEROR HONORIUS 230 EPITHALAMIUM OF HONORIUS AND MARIA-- PREFACE 240 EPITHALAMIUM 242 PANEGYRIC ON THE THIRD CONSULSHIP OF THE EMPEROR HONORIUS (A.D. 396)-- PREFACE 268 PANEGYRIC 270 PANEGYRIC ON THE FOURTH CONSULSHIP OF THE EMPEROR HONORIUS (A.D. 398) 286 PANEGYRIC ON THE CONSULSHIP OF FL. MANLIUS THEODORUS (A.D. 399)-- PREFACE 336