TACITUS.

"Traitors are odious even to those whom they benefit. When the state is most corrupt, the laws are most numerous.-There will be vices as long as there are men.-Everything unknown is magnified. -It is a peculiarity of the human mind to hate one whom you have injured."

JUVENAL.

"Rare is the combination of beauty and modesty.-Nature never says one thing, and wisdom another.-Himself being the judge, no guilty man is acquitted.-The anger of the gods, however great it may be, yet certainly is slow. -Less frequent enjoyment of them makes pleasures keener."

MINOR POETS AND PROSE WRITERS.

the Roman Emperors."

CREMU'TIUS CORDUS, the historian: | SPARTIA NUS (300): "Biographies of "Annals." Cordus offended Tiberius by styling Cassius "the last of the Romans," and starved himself to death to escape the tyrant. AUFID'IUS BASSUS: histories of the civil and German wars.

ASCO'NIUS PEDIA NUS: a grammarian

ELIUS DONA'TUS (4th century): the preceptor of St. Jerome; his "Art of Grammar" once a popular text-book. PRUDENTIUS CLEMENS (4th century): a Christian poet; hymns, etc.

of Patavium; commentaries on Cic- | AVIE NUS (4th century): poems on asero's orations.

PETRO'NIUS ARBITER, the companion and victim of Nero: author of "Satyricon," a witty romance, of which a few fragments remain.

JULIUS FRONTI NUS: a self-made man of the Flavian era; works on the Roman aqueducts, military tactics, the measurement of land, etc. LICINIANUS (age of the Antonines) : a history of republican Rome; style affected.

MARCUS AURELIUS, the emperor (161– 180): a devoted Stoic; his "Meditations" (in Greek) full of noble sentiments.

PAPINIAN AND ULPIAN, the jurists (about 200): writers on law.

tronomical and geographical subjects.

AMMIA'NUS MARCELLI'NUS (died about 400): the last Latin historian; his "Thirty-one Books of Events," a continuation of the history of Tacitus through the reign of Valens (378). SYMMACHUS (400): a high-minded opponent of Christianity; defeated by Ambrose in an attempt to restore the altar of Victory; orations, epistles.

RUTILIUS (5th century): poetical diary of a journey from Rome to Gaul; style terse and elegant.

PRISCIAN (6th century): the greatest of classical grammarians; the most complete Latin Grammar of antiquity.

Assyrio-Babylonian literature,, 106-114. Comparative Philology, 33.

Crates, the poet, 261; the grammarian, Gallus, Ælius, 387.

277, 329.

Cratinus, 261.

Croesus, 180, 181.

Ctesias, 233.

Cuneiform letters, 19, 65, 66, 104.
Curtius, Quintus, 408.

Cyclic Poets, 152, 156.

Cynics, the, 254.
Cyprian, 422.

Cyrus the Younger, 229.

Damophyla, 171.

Daniel, 98.

Darius, 66.

David, 93, 94.

Democritus, 237.

Demosthenes, 256.

Diodorus Siculus, 281.

Glabrio, Acilius, 328.

Gorgias, 255.

Gracchi, the, 326.

Gratius, 382.

Greece, language of, 135; literature of,
133-302.

Gregory, St., 421.

Habakkuk, 97.

Hebrew, language, 84; literature, 83–
104.

Hecatæus, the Milesian, 183.

Heliodorus, 295.

Hellanicus, 184.

Heraclitus, 183.

Hermes Trismegistus, 123.

Herodian, 302.

Herodotus, 222.

Diogenes, the Cynic, 255; Laertius, 302. Hesiod, 152.

Dion Cassius, 302.

Hiero, 175, 187, 195.

Dionysius, of Syracuse, 214, 242; of Hierocles, 295.

Halicarnassus, 281.

Donatus, Ælius, 428.

Hieroglyphics, 18; Chinese, 68; Cunei-
form, 105, 106, 108; Egyptian, 118.

Drama, Hindoo, 54; Greek, 192, 263; Himyaritic inscriptions, 114.

Job,

Joel,

Book of, 93.

97.

Jonah, 97.

Jones, Sir William, 33.

Josephus, 284.

Joshua, Book of, 92.
Judges, Book of, 92.

Justin Martyr, 293.

Juvenal, 408.

INDEX.

Mahâbhârata, the, 43.

Manetho, 279.
Manilius, 382.

Manu, Code of, 38.
Marcellinus, 428.

Martial, 404.

Maximus, Valerius, 389.
Meleager, 280, 297, 300.

Menander, 264.

Mencius, 79.

Kâlidâsa, 46; lyrics of, 46; epics of, 48; Messala, 376, 386.

dramas of, 50, 53.

King, the five, 73.

Kings, Books

of the, 92.

Labienus, Titus, 387.

Lactantius, 422.

Lælius, 326.

Language, spoken,

17; written, 18; the

Micah, 97.

Mimnermus, 177.
Moschus, 269, 271.

Moses, 90.

Museus, 138, 302.

Museum, the, 272.

Myrtis, 186.

Sanscrit, 31; the Zend, 60; the Chi- Nævius, 310, 320.
nese, 67; the Hebrew, 84; the Chal- Nahum, 97.
dean, 105; the Egyptian, 117; the Nemesian, 422.

Greek, 135; the Latin, 304.

Neo-Platonism, 293.

Languages, origin and relationship of, | Nepos, Cornelius, 347.
12; Aryan, 16; Semitic, 16, 83, 84; Nicander, 280.

M

Turanian,

Latin,

428.

17.

Nonnus, 302.

language, 304; literature, 303- Nossis, 280.

Lavinius, 328.

Lesches of Mytilene, 156.

Odyssey, the, 147.

Oppian, 302.

Library, the Pergamene, 24, 274; the Origen, 293.
royal Persian, 67; the imperial Chi- | Ovid, 379.
nese, 83; the Hebrew, at Jerusalem,

104; the royal Assyrian, 110; the Pacuvius, 319.
Egyptian, 121; the Alexandrian, 272. Pânini, 57.

Licinianus, 428.

Papinian, 428.

Literature, General View of Ancient, Parallelism, 89.

25; Hindoo, 31-60; Persian, 60-67; Paterculus, Velleius, 389.
Chinese, 67-83; Hebrew, 83-104; | Pausanias, 292.
Assyrio - Babylonian, 104-114; Ara- Pedianus, 428.
bic, 114; Phoenician, 115; Egyptian, Pentaour, 126.
117-131; Grecian, 133-302; Roman, Pentateuch, 90.

303-428.

Livius Andronicus, 309.

Livy, 382.

Longinus, 294.
Longus, 295.

Lucan, 397.

Lucian, 288.

Lucilius, 323.
Lucretius, 348.
Lyceum, the, 248.
Lycophron, 280.
Lysias, 256.

Periander, 184.

431

Sanscrit, language, 31; literature, 31-60. Veda, the, 34.