The Student's Companion to Latin AuthorsMiddleton, George
Philosophy
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
Middleton, George
Authors, Latin; Latin literature -- History and criticism
Caecilius Statius,
dates, 37;
comedies, 38;
relations with Ter. 38, 42;
views on Caecilius, 39;
friend of Ennius, 28;
imit. by Ter. 43.
Caelius Rufus,
defended by Cic. 76;
enemy of Catull. 135.
Caesar, C. Iulius,
birth, 100;
early connexion with democrats, 100;
military and civil career, 101-2;
supports Pompey, 102;
first triumvirate, conquest of Gaul, civil war, 103;
dictator, death, 104;
_De Bello Gallico_, 104;
its objects, style, 105;
_De Bello Civili_, 106;
other works in the Corpus Caesarianum, 106;
theories on their authorship, 107;
Caesar's lost works, incl. speeches and poems, 109;
criticisms on his poems, 111;
verses on Ter. 51;
relations with Cic. 71, 77, 109, 110;
with Varro, 92;
with Sall. 127;
with Laberius, 97;
with Catull. 137;
with Calvus, 143;
celebrated by Bibaculus, 100;
by Atac. 144;
Livy on, 223;
Lucan on, 268, 270;
foll. by Frontinus, 311;
by Tac. 346.
Caesar Strabo, 66.
Calagurris, birthpl. of Quintilian, 302.
Calendar, Caesar's reform of, 104, 110.
Calidus, Iulius, 124.
Caligula, and Seneca, 242.
Callimachus,
imit. by Catull. 139;
by Propert. 198-9;
by Ovid, 211-2.
Calpurnius Piso, 58;
foll. by Livy, 220.
Calpurnius Siculus, T. 275;
discussion of his date, 276;
_Eclogae_ and sequel by Nemesianus, his models, _De laude Pisonis_,
277.
Calvus, C. Licinius Macer,
life, speeches, 142;
poems, relations with Caes. 143;
with Catull. 138-9, 143;
Hor.'s opinion of, 143, 176.
Canticum, 19, 50.
Cassius Hemina, 58.
Catilinarian conspiracy, 70, 75, 102.
Catius, T. 83, 112.
Cato, M. Porcius, the censor,
date, 53;
founder of Latin prose, 53;
works, 54-5;
patron of Enn. 27;
foll. by Nep. 117;
by Virg. 157, 161;
by Livy, 219;
imit, by Sall. 131.
Cato Uticensis, Lucan on, 269.
Cato, Valerius, teacher of Catullus, 133, 139.
Catullus, C. Valerius,
birth and dates, 132;
family and education, 133;
relations with Lesbia, 134;
voyage to Bithynia, 136;
attacks Caesar's party, 137;
relations with contemporaries, 138;
longer poems, Alexandrian influence, publication of poems, 139;
metre, 175;
friend of Nep. 114-5;
of Calvus, 138-9, 143;
of Cinna, 140;
Hor.'s opinion of, 143, 176;
imit. by Virg. 154;
by Mart. 301.
Catulus, _see_ Lutatius.
Celsus, Cornelius,
his encyclopaedia, 235;
its subdivisions, extant part _De Re Medica_, 236;
foll. by Quint. 309.
Christians, Tacitus' view of, 347.
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