41. Q. What blessing did she extend to all the countries she conquered? A. The blessing of stable government, of an administration of law at least comparatively just and wise. 42. Q. What effect did Rome have upon the civilization of those she subjugated? A. After her fashion she civilized where she had subjugated. 43. Q. What did Rome do that is to be accounted an immeasurable blessing to mankind? A. She made the world politically one, for the unhindered universal spread of Christianity. 44. Q. Who are some of the historians mentioned as having written works on the history of Rome, that are commended to the reader? A. Creighton, Leighton, Liddell, Mommsen, Merivale, Arnold and Gibbon. 45. Q. What work on the literature of Rome is spoken of as perhaps the best manual of Latin letters? A. Cruttwell’s “History of Roman Literature.” 46. Q. During what period was Roman literature produced, that is usually termed classic? A. From about 80 B. C. to A. D. 108, covering a space of 188 years. 47. Q. What writer begins, and what one ends this period? A. Cicero begins and Tacitus ends it. 48. Q. Who may be regarded as the beginner of Latin literature? A. Livius Andronicus, a writer of tragedy about twenty-four years before Christ. 49. Q. Who wrote a sort of epic on the first Punic war, esteemed by scholars one of the chief lost things in Roman literature? A. Nævius. 50. Q. What is the next great name in Latin literature, and what is said of his influence and example? A. Ennius, and his influence and example decisively fixed the form of the Latin poetry. 51. Q. Who were two great Roman writers of comedy? A. Plautus and Terence. 52. Q. What form of composition in verse may be said to be original with Rome? A. The satire. 53. Q. What seems to be a general fact in literary history, in regard to the first development of a national literature? A. That verse precedes prose. 54. Q. Who was the creator of the classic Roman satire? A. Lucilius. 55. Q. Who were the great Roman masters of satire? A. Horace and Juvenal. 56. Q. What English writers have written brilliant imitative satires with the essential spirit of Horace and Juvenal? A. Dryden, Pope and Johnson. 57. Q. To whom may be attributed the merit of being the founder or former of Latin prose? A. Cato, the Censor. 58. Q. Who among the Romans, with Demosthenes among Greeks, reigns alone as one of the two undisputedly greatest masters of human speech that have ever appeared on the planet? A. Cicero. 59. Q. Who among Romans were eminent writers of history for Rome? A. Cato, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. 60. Q. In what age, and by whom, was the great epic of Rome produced? A. The Æneid, in the age of Augustus, by Virgil. 61. Q. Who by eminence was the Roman poet of society and manners? A. Horace. 62. Q. What is any Latin Reader, like any Greek, pretty sure to contain? A. Its share of fables, of anecdotes, of historical fragments, of mythology, and of biography.