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The lives of the authors you read: Cicero, Caesar, Livy, Tacitus, Catullus, Plautus and others.

  1. Cicero5. M. Tullius Cicero, the orator, eldest son of No. 2. In what follows we do not intend to enter deeply into the complicated political transactions of the era during whic…168 min read
  2. Liviusthe Roman historian, was born at Patavium, in the consulship of Caesar and Bibulus, B. C. 59. The greater part of his life appears to have been spent in the metropolis, b…29 min read
  3. TacitusC. Cornelius. the historian. The time and place of the birth of Tacitus are unknorwn. He was nearly of the same age as the younger Plinius (Plin. Ep. 7.20) who was born a…17 min read
  4. Caesar18. C. Julius Caesar, C. F. C. N., the dictator, son of No. 15 and Aurelia, was born on the 12th of July, B. C. 100, in the consulship of C. Marius (VI.) and L. Valerius …73 min read
  5. CatullusVALERIUS. whose praenomen is altogether omitted in many MSS., while several, with Apuleius (Apolog.), designate him as Caius, and a few of the best with Pliny (Plin. Nat.…8 min read
  6. Plautusthe most celebrated comic poet of Rome, was a native of Sarsina, a small village in Umbria. Almost the only particulars, which we possess respecting his life, are contain…20 min read
  7. JuvenalisDecimus Junius. The small amount of direct information which we possess with regard to the personal history of Juvenal is derived almost exclusively from a very meagre me…12 min read
  8. MartialisM. Valerius. the epigrammatist. Whatever information we possess regarding the personal history of this writer is derived almost exclusively from his works; for although h…9 min read
  9. LucanusM. Annaeus. The short notices of this poet in common circulation, such as that prefixed to the edition of Weise, although particularly meagre, contain a series of stateme…9 min read