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
Cicero, M. Tullius,
birth, education, at the bar, 69;
in the East, political career, Catilinarian conspiracy, banishment, 70;
recall, proconsul of Cilicia, in civil war, 71;
death, 73;
speeches, 73;
philosophical works, 79;
Cic. as a philosopher, 83;
rhetorical works, 83;
letters, 85;
their style, lost prose writings, 86;
poems, 87;
criticisms of his poetry, 88;
on chronology, 1, 9;
verses on Ter. 51;
conversed with Accius, 56;
criticises Sisenna, 67;
attacked by Catull. 138;
his reference to Lucr. 119;
editorship of Lucr. 120;
relations with Nep. 114;
with Calvus, 142;
foll. by Nep. 117;
by Lucr. 120;
by Hor. 174;
by Val. Max. 234;
largely quoted by Quint. 308;
admired by elder Sen. 228.
Cicero, Quintus, 89.
Cincius Alimentus, 53;
foll. by Livy, 219.
Cinna, C. Helvius,
friend of Catull. 136-9, 140;
partisan of Caesar, discussion of his identity, 141;
poems, 141;
patronized by Pollio, 112.
Claudius, emperor,
relations with Livy, 216;
with Sen. 243 _sqq._
Claudius Quadrigarius, 67;
foll. by Livy, 220.
Clodia (Lesbia), 76;
Catullus' relations with, 134 _sqq._
Clodius, P. 70, 76.
Clodius Licinus, 220.
Cluvius Rufus, foll. by Tac. 346.
Codrus, 183.
Coelius Antipater, 58;
foll. by Livy, 220.
Columella,
birth, military service, property, date, 258;
works, 258-9.
Comum, birthpl. of the two Plinii, 281, 326.
Contaminatio, 6, 13, 46 _sqq._
Corbulo, Domitius, memoirs of, 346.
Corduba, birthpl. of the two Senecas and Lucan, 226, 240, 264.
Corinna, celebrated by Ovid, 207.
Cornelius, _see_ Celsus, Gallus, Nepos, Sisenna, Tacitus.
Cornificius, 88.
Cornificius, poet, 139.
Cornutus, Annaeus,
teacher of Persius, 260 _sqq._;
of Lucan, 265.
Corvinus, _see_ Messalla.
Cremona, birthpl. of Bibaculus, 99.
Crispus, _see_ Sallustius.
Curtius Rufus,
his date and identity, 256;
_Historiae Alexandri_, 257.
Cynthia (Hostia), Propertius' relations with, 65, 193, 197 _sqq._
Delia (Plania), Tibullus' love for, 188-9.
Demetrius the Cynic, 251, 254.
Democritus, imit. by Lucr. 123.
Demophilus, 11.
Didascaliae, 15, 17, 44 _sqq._
Diodotus, teacher of Cic. 69.
Diphilus,
imit. by Plaut. 12, 15, 17;
by Ter. 48.
Diverbium, 19, 50.
Domitian,
patron of Statius, 293;
of Mart. 297 _sqq._;
of Quint. 305.
Domitius Marsus, 184;
epigram on Tibull. 186.
Donatus, Aelius, 354, 39, 44, 147 _sqq._
Dossenus, in fabula Atellana, 25, 67.
Eclecticism,
of Enn. 29;
of Cic. 83;
of Hor. 173.
Egnatius, 99.
Empedocles, imit. by Lucr. 122.
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