Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF Publius (Or Gaius) Cornelius TACITUS Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS ## THE GERMANY AND THE AGRICOLA ## THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS ## CONCERNING ORATORY ## TACITUS THE HISTORIES, Vols I and II ## ARGUMENTS OF CELSUS, PORPHYRY, AND JULIAN TACITUS ON GERMANY TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES THE GERMANY AND THE AGRICOLA OF TACITUS. By Tacitus With An Introduction By Edward Brooks, Jr. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. A TREATISE ON THE SITUATION, MANNERS AND INHABITANTS OF GERMANY. [1] THE LIFE OF CNAEUS JULIUS AGRICOLA. FOOTNOTES: THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS, OUT OF THE FIRST SIX ANNALS OF TACITUS With His Account Of Germany, And Life Of Agricola By Tacitus Translated By Thomas Gordon Edited By Arthur Galton CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ANNALS OF TACITUS: THE ANNALS OF TACITUS BOOK I. — A.D. 14 AND 15. BOOK II. — A.D. 16-19. BOOK III. — A.D. 20-22. BOOK IV. — A.D. 23-28. BOOK V. — A.D. 29-31. BOOK VI. — A.D. 32-37. A TREATISE OF THE SITUATION, CUSTOMS, AND PEOPLE OF GERMANY. THE LIFE OF AGRICOLA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SITUATION, CLIMATE, AND PEOPLE OF BRITAIN. THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS With An Essay On His Life And Genius By Arthur Murphy, Esq. In Eight Volumes. Vol. VIII. A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY, OR THE CAUSES OF CORRUPT ELOQUENCE. CONTENTS. A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY, OR THE CAUSES OF CORRUPT ELOQUENCE. NOTES ON THE DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY. CONCLUSION. GEOGRAPHICAL TABLE: A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORY, OR THE CAUSES OF CORRUPT ELOQUENCE. I. General introduction, with the reasons for writing an account of the following discourse. II. The persons engaged in the dialogue; at first, Curiatius Maternus, Julius Secundus, and Marcus Aper. III. Secundus endeavours to dissuade Maternus from thinking any more of dramatic composition. IV. Maternus gives his reasons for persisting. V. Aper condemns his resolution, and, in point of utility, real happiness, fame and dignity, contends that the oratorical profession is preferable to the poetical. VIII. He cites the example of Eprius Marcellus and Crispus Vibius, who raised themselves by their eloquence to the highest honours. IX. Poetical fame brings with it no advantage. X. He exhorts Maternus to relinquish the muses, and devote his whole to eloquence and the business of the bar. XI. Maternus defends his favourite studies; the pleasures arising from poetry are in their nature innocent and sublime; the fame is extensive and immortal. The poet enjoys the most delightful intercourse with his friends, whereas the life of the public orator is a state of warfare and anxiety. XIV. Vipstanius Messala enters the room. He finds his friends engaged in a controversy, and being an admirer of ancient eloquence, he advises Aper to adopt the model of the ancients in preference to the plan of the modern rhetoricians. XV.