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The collection assembles Latin poems that praise and defend imperial figures through ornate panegyrics celebrating a general's consulship and an emperor's sixth consulship, narrate campaigns of the Gothic War in epic style, and retell mythic episodes such as the abduction of Proserpine. Shorter occasional pieces offer varied tones. Recurring concerns include military honor, political legitimacy, and divine sanction, expressed in rhetorical flourishes, classical allusion, and vivid imagery that alternates between public panegyric and mythic narrative, combining courtly advocacy with poetic virtuosity.

END OF VOL. II

Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.


THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY

VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED.

Latin Authors.

APULEIUS. THE GOLDEN ASS (METAMORPHOSES). W. Adlington (1566). Revised by S. Gaselee. (2nd Imp.)

AUSONIUS. H. G. Evelyn White. 2 Vols.

BOETHIUS: TRACTS AND DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIAE. Rev. H. F. Stewart and E. K. Rand.

CAESAR: CIVIL WARS. A. G. Peskett. (2nd Imp.)

CAESAR: GALLIC WAR. H. J. Edwards. (2nd Imp.)

CATULLUS. F. W. Cornish; TIBULLUS. J. P. Postgate; and PERVIGILIUM VENERIS. J. W. Mackail. (5th Imp.)

CICERO: DE FINIBUS. H. Rackham. (2nd Imp.)

CICERO: DE OFFICIIS. Walter Miller. (2nd Imp.)

CICERO: LETTERS TO ATTICUS. E. O. Winstedt. 3 vols. (2nd Imp.)

CLAUDIAN. M. Platnauer. 2 Vols.

CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE. W. Watts (1631). 2 Vols. (2nd Imp.)

FRONTO: CORRESPONDENCE. C. R. Haines. 2 Vols.

HORACE: ODES AND EPODES. C. E. Bennett. (4th Imp.)

JUVENAL AND PERSIUS. G. G. Ramsay. (2nd Imp.)

LIVY. B. O. Foster. 13 Vols. Vol. I.

MARTIAL. W. C. Ker. 2 Vols.

OVID: HEROIDES AND AMORES. Grant Showerman. (2nd Imp.)

OVID: METAMORPHOSES. F. J. Miller. 2 Vols. (Vol. I. 2nd Ed.)

PETRONIUS. M. Heseltine; SENECA: APOCOLOCYNTOSIS. W. H. D. Rouse. (3rd Imp.)

PLAUTUS. Paul Nixon. 5 Vols. Vols. I. and II.

PLINY: LETTERS. Melmoth’s translation revised by W. M. L. Hutchinson. 2 Vols.

PROPERTIUS. H. E. Butler. (2nd Imp.)

QUINTILIAN. H. E. Butler. 4 Vols.

SALLUST. J. C. Rolfe.

SCRIPTORES HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE. D. Magie. 4 Vols. Vol. I.

SENECA: EPISTULAE MORALES. R. M. Gummere. 8 Vols. Vols. I. and II.

SENECA: TRAGEDIES. F. J. Miller. 2 Vols.

SUETONIUS. J. C. Rolfe. 2 Vols. (2nd Imp.)

TACITUS: DIALOGUS. Sir Wm. Peterson; and AGRICOLA and GERMANIA. Maurice Hutton. (2nd Imp.)

TERENCE. John Sargeaunt. 2 Vols. (3rd Imp.)

VIRGIL. H. R. Fairclough. 2 Vols. (Vol. I. 2nd Imp.)

Greek Authors.

ACHILLES TATIUS. S. Gaselee.

AESCHINES. C. D. Adams.

APOLLODORUS. Sir J. G. Frazer. 2 Vols.

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. E. O. Seaton. (2nd Imp.)

THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS. Kirsopp Lake. 2 Vols. (2nd Imp.)

APPIAN’S ROMAN HISTORY. Horace White. 4 Vols.

CALLIMACHUS AND LYCOPHRON. A. W. Mair; ARATUS. G. B. Mair.

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. Rev. G. W. Butterworth.

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. Thornley’s translation revised by J. M. Edmonds; and PARTHENIUS. S. Gaselee.

DIO CASSIUS: ROMAN HISTORY. E. Cary. 9 Vols. Vols. I. to VI.

EURIPIDES. A. S. Way. 4 Vols. (3rd Imp.)

GALEN: ON THE NATURAL FACULTIES. A. J. Brock.

THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. W. R. Paton. 5 Vols. (2nd Imp.)

THE GREEK BUCOLIC POETS (THEOCRITUS, BION, MOSCHUS). J. M. Edmonds. (3rd Imp.)

HERODOTUS. A. D. Godley. 4 Vols. Vols. I. and II.

HESIOD AND THE HOMERIC HYMNS. H. G. Evelyn White. (2nd Imp.)

HOMER: ODYSSEY. A. T. Murray. 2 Vols.

JULIAN. Wilmer Cave Wright. 3 Vols. Vols. I. and II.

LUCIAN. A. M. Harmon. 8 Vols. Vols. I. to III. (2nd Imp.)

LYRA GRAECA. J. M. Edmonds. 3 Vols. Vol. I.

MARCUS AURELIUS. C. R. Haines.

MENANDER. F. G. Allinson.

PAUSANIAS: DESCRIPTION OF GREECE. W. H. S. Jones. 5 Vols. and Companion Vol. Vol. I.

PHILOSTRATUS: THE LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. F. C. Conybears. 2 Vols. (2nd Imp.)

PHILOSTRATUS AND EUNAPIUS: LIVES OF THE SOPHISTS. Wilmer Cave Wright.

PINDAR. Sir J. E. Sandys. (2nd Ed.)

PLATO: EUTHYPHRO, APOLOGY, CRITO, PHAEDO, PHAEDRUS. H. N. Fowler. (3rd Imp.)

PLATO: THEAETETUS, SOPHIST. H. N. Fowler.

PLUTARCH: THE PARALLEL LIVES. B. Perrin. 11 Vols. Vols. I. to X.

POLYBIUS. W. B. Paton. 6 Vols. Vols. I. and II.

PROCOPIUS: HISTORY OF THE WARS. H. B. Dewing. 7 Vols. Vols. I to III.

QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS. A. S. Way.

SOPHOCLES. F. Storr. 2 Vols. (3rd. Imp.)

ST. JOHN DAMASCENE: BARLAAM AND IOASAPH. Rev. G. R. Woodward and Harold Mattingly.

STRABO: GEOGRAPHY. Horace L. Jones. 8 Vols. Vol. I.

THEOPHRASTUS: ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS. Sir Arthur Hort, Bart. 2 Vols.

THUCYDIDES. C. F. Smith. 4 Vols. Vols. I. to III.

XENOPHON: CYROPAEDIA. Walter Miller. 2 Vols.

XENOPHON: HELLENICA, ANABASIS, APOLOGY, AND SYMPOSIUM. C. L. Brownson and O. J. Todd. 3 Vols.