Pacuvius, 242, 270 Persius, 245 Petronius, 263 Phaedrus, 258 Plautus, 254, 264, 265 Pliny the Elder, 256 Pliny the Younger, 256, 257, 260 Propertius, 79, 92, 132, 234, 253, 267 Prudentius, 236 Publilius Syrus, 265 Quintilian, 244, 250, 257, 264, 266 Sallust, 160, 162, 170, 177, 178, 194 Seneca, 240, 265 Silius Italicus, 114, 119, 123, 126 Statius, 239, 243 Suetonius, 176, 186, 187, 192, 226, 227, 246, 255 Tacitus, 262, 265 Terence, 255, 265 Terentianus Maurus, 264 Tibullus, 251, 259 Valerius Flaccus, 242, 253 Valerius Maximus, 84, 92, 176 Varro, 265 Velleius Paterculus, 156, 167, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 180, 189, 191, 195, 203, 224, 233 Vergil, 48, 60, 62, 66, 67, 84, 107, 108, 110, 219, 247, 260, 265 INTRODUCTION +1. Heading.+--The selections in this book are in most cases intelligible apart from their context. In cases where this is not so, you will find it a valuable exercise to endeavour to arrive at the context for yourself. In all cases, however, you should pay attention to the +Heading+, which will give you a useful clue to the meaning of the passage, +2. Author.+--When you see the author’s name, try to remember what you know about him. For example, +Livy+, the historian of Rome and friend of Augustus, the contemporary of Vergil and Ovid. The short Lives, pp. 293-345, will tell you the chief facts about the authors from whom the selections are taken, and will give you a brief summary of their chief works. Also, if you refer to Appendix VII., pp. 347-363, you will gain some idea of the time in which the authors lived and of their contemporaries. +3. Read the Passage through, carefully.+--As you read-- (1) Notice all +allusions+ and +key-words+ that may help you to the sense of the passage. (2) +Pay special attention to the opening sentence.+ In translating a passage much depends on getting the first sentence right. (3) Notice especially the connectives which introduce sentences and clauses +marked off by commas+. In this way you will be able to distinguish between a +Principal Sentence+ and a +Subordinate Clause+. (For List of Conjunctions see Appendix I. pp. 274-276.) HELPS TO VOCABULARY. +4. Through English Derivatives.+--English derivatives, if used in the proper way, may give you valuable help in inferring meanings. The reason why you must generally +not+ translate the Latin word by the derived English word is that, as you probably know, many English derivatives have come from Latin words which had wholly or in part lost their earlier classical meaning, or from Latin words not found at all in classical Latin. Yet in such cases the English word may be far from useless. You must take care to let it suggest to you the original or root-meaning, leaving the correct meaning of the Latin, whether the same as the English word or not, to be determined by the context.