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Good Old Days, The 24

Hannibal and Africanus 23
Hannibal and Rome 27
Happy Age 9

Happy Life, The 127
Haunted House, A 92
Heroic Victim, A 120
Heroine, A 3

Humanity to Slaves 57

Invisible Motion 124 Irrelevant Speaker, An 19

Joys of Country Life, The 10

Last Speech of Crassus, The 65

Lesson in Modesty, A 37
Living Missile, A 117
Lore of Pythagoras, The 113
Loveliness and Desolation 110
Lover of Peace, A 14

Meeting of Two Great Powers, A 108

Memorial to a Wife, A 46 Mighty Conqueror, A 61 Military Glory 2

Mission of Aeneas, The 78 Mission of Rome, The 1

Night Attack, A 123
Noisy Schoolmaster, The 91

Old Hand, An 119

'O Ruddier than the Cherry' 139

Palace of the Sun, The 56 Passion of Dido, The 72 Paullus and his Prisoner 126 Perseus slays the Monster 74 Philopoemen and the Achaean League 34

Picture of Spring, A 115 Plea for an Offending Servant, A 81

Poet's Youth, A 118 Pompey and the Pirates 62 Praise of Italy, The (1) 32 (2) 33 Praise of Literature, The (1)

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Praise of Literature, The (2)

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Prayer of Orpheus, The 128 Prudent Hero, A 64 Pyramus and Thisbe 67

Quality of Mercy, The 105

Rape of Persephone, The 28 Rape of the Locks, The 116 Revolt of Athamania, The 68

Roll of Great Men, A 94 Roman Orator and Greek

Sculptors, A 70 Romans besiege Phocaea, The 52

Scholar in his Garden, The 138

Scipio Africanus 44

Scipio on his Defence 114 Secret of Pompey's Success, The 128

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Sentence of Exile, A 69
Sheep and Oxen
Short Way of Dealing with
Kings, A 131
Signs of a Storm 96
Social Pest, A 26

So Near and yet so Far 81
Stolen Statue, A 75
Storm at Sea, A 66
Story of Arria, Another 3
Stricken Deer, The 59
Studious Sportsman, A 39

Teaching of Homer, The 53
Thanks to the Muse 93
Tour in Greece, A 136
Tribute to Caesar, A 87
Two Crimes 123

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Lucretius i, 61, 115; ii, 124;

iii, 76, 94

Martial i, 3, 52, 71, 81; iii,

26, 41, 101, 123; iv, 110, 145; v, 45, 58; vi, 19; vii, 63; ix, 91; x, 9, 127, 131; xi, 22

Ovid, Ars Amatoria iii, 35, 36 Fasti ii, 4; iv, 28 Metamorphoses i, 24, 47; ii, 56; iv, 67, 74; v, 40, 98; vi, 103; viii, 86; x, 128; xiii, 120, 132, 139; xv, 21, 113

Remedium Amoris 142 Tristia i, 69; iii, 107; iv, 93, 118

Pliny, Letters i, 39, 138; iii, 3; vi, 18, 46; vii, 92, 116; viii, 57; ix, 73, 81 Letters to Trajan 143 Propertius iv, 17, 38 Tibullus i, 9

Virgil, Aeneid i, 16; ii, 49;

iii, 66; iv, 72, 78, 82; v, 89, 99; vi, 1, 104, 106, 109, 112; vii, 59; ix, 123, 130; xi, 117, 133; xii, 137 Georgic i, 96; ii, 10, 32, 33; iii, 7, 43

SILVA LATINA

1. The Mission of Rome

Aeneas visited his father Anchises in the world below, where Anchises prophesied the future glory of Rome and showed him the heroes, yet unborn, who were to make Rome famous.

"The Greeks will be unrivalled in sculpture, eloquence, and astronomy, the Romans in law and government.'

Excudent alii spīrantia mollius aera,
Crēdō equidem, vīvōs dūcent de marmore
vultūs,

Ōrābunt causās melius, caelīque meātūs
Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent;
Tū regere imperio populōs, Rōmāne, me-

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2. Military Glory

Murena was elected consul in 63 B.C.

He was then Cicero defended

prosecuted for bribery at the election. him; he tells Servius, one of the prosecutors, that Murena's military distinction is a stronger claim to the consulship than Servius's knowledge of law.

Sed, ut ad studiōrum artiumque contentiōnem revertamur, quî potest dubitārī, quin ad consulātum adipiscendum multō plūs adferat dignitātis reī mīlitāris quam iūris cīvīlis glōria? Vigilās tū 5 dē nocte, ut tuis consultoribus respondeās, ille, ut eō, quō intendit, mātūrē cum exercitū perveniat, tē gallōrum, illum būcinārum cantus exsuscitat, tū actiōnem instruis, ille aciem instruit. Tū cavēs, nē tui consultōrēs, ille, nē urbēs aut castra capianIo tur; ille tenet ac scit, ut hostium copiae, tū, ut aquae pluviae arceantur; ille exercitātus est in propāgandīs finibus, tū in regendīs. Ac nīmīrum, dicendum est enim quod sentiō, reī mīlitāris virtūs praestat ceteris omnibus. Haec nomen populō 15 Rōmānō, haec huic urbi aeternam glōriam peperit; haec orbem terrārum pārēre huic imperio coegit. Omnēs urbānae rēs, omnia haec nostra praeclāra studia, et haec forensis laus et industria, latent in tūtēlā ac praesidio bellicae virtutis. Simul atque 20 increpuit suspiciō tumultūs, artēs īlicō nostrae conticescunt.

CICERO, Pro Murena 22.

3. A Heroine

When Paetus was forced by Claudius to commit suicide, his wife, Arria, stabbed herself first and then handed the dagger to him, saying, "It does not hurt.”

This is perhaps an inscription for a statuette.

Casta suō gladium cum trāderet Arria Paetō,
Quem de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis,

'Si qua fidēs, vulnus quod fēcī nōn dolet' inquit, 'Sed, quod tu facies, hoc mihi, Paete, dolet.' MARTIAL i 13.

4. Another Story of Arria

This woman, so famous for her heroic death, was as noble in her life also.

Aegrōtābat Paetus, marītus eius, aegrōtābat et filius, uterque mortifere, ut vidēbātur; filius dēcessit, eximia pulchritudine, parī verecundiā, et parentibus non minus ob alia carus quam quod filius erat. Huic illa ita fūnus paravit, ita duxit 5 exequiās, ut ignōrāret marītus; quïn immò, quotiens cubiculum eius intraret, vivere filium atque etiam commodiorem esse simulabat, ac persaepe interroganti, quid ageret puer, respondebat, 'Bene quievit, libenter cibum sumpsit.' Deinde, cum 10 diu cohibitae lacrimae vincerent prōrumperentque, egrediēbātur; tunc sē dolōrī dabat; satiāta, siccis oculis, composito vultu redibat, tamquam orbitātem forīs reliquisset. Praeclarum quidem illud eiusdem, ferrum stringere, perfodere pectus, 15

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