Introduction to classical Latin literature (1904) (14783466362)

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Title: Introduction to classical Latin literature
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Lawton, William Cranston, 1853-1941
Subjects: Latin literature -- History and criticism
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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nical on the one side and col-loquial on the other, diverges widely from the rhetorical,semi-poetic elegance of Livy or Tacitus. His style isstraightforward and usually clear, though, as he himselfforesaw, it is not easy for such abstruse matters to belucidly set forth in writing. Least of all can we credit anything like literary qualityto the lexicographer and school-master Verrius Flaccus,tutor of Augustuss short-lived grandsons. His grammati-cal and archffiological essays are quite lost. His greatlexicon, entitled De Verborum Significatu, is sadly tat-tered, and what is left is oftener accredited to the laterabbreviator Festus, who showed his scholarly qualitylargely by omitting the tvholly obsolete Avords, and Flaccusexplanation of them! The barrenness of the later Augustan prose has beenquite sufficiently exemplified. It is abundantly clear thatit was an age of poetry, of elegance in form, of easymorals and rather frivolous tastes. High above their timetower only Virgil and Livy.
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AUGUSTUS.Antique bust iu tlie Caiutoline Museum. THE AFTERMATH 327 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Hardly anything mentioned in this chapter need be laid before theyouthful student. On the curious and fruitful subject of the graffitithere is a brief illustrated article in the Harper Dictionary of Antiqui-ties, and specimens in Peck and Arrowsmiths Roman Life in LatinProse and Verse. Mature scholars will turn to Volume IV. of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Grattius or Gratius may be cursorily perused in Bahrenss PoetaeLatini Minores, Vol. I., pp. 31-53. The Priapeia may also be found inBahrens, Vol. I., in Biichelers Petronius, or in Lucian Miillers text ofthe elegiac poets mentioned above. The text of Hyginus should beaccessible for reference in any discussion on mythological subjects.Senecas important book is included in the beautifully printed Biblio-theca series of Schenkl (Leipsic and Prague). The chief edition ofVitruvius is by Rose, Leipsic, 1867. There is a useful German trans-lation