Helps to Latin Translation at Sight

(iii.) _Some good Life of Archimedes._ The _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ supplies a good short life and refers to Cicero's finding the Tomb of Archimedes, and to the still extant w...

+The Sullanian Proscriptions.+ Sulla was not like Marius swayed by feelings of revenge alone. His main object was the public good, which in his conviction was to be realised by...

_Aegidaque horriferam, turbatae Palladis arma, Certatim squamis serpentum auroque polibant, Connexosque angues ipsamque in pectore divae Gorgona, desecto vertentem lumina collo....

I. List of Important Conjunctions 274-276 II. List of Important Prefixes 277-281 III. List of Important Suffixes 282-286 IV. Groups of Cognate Words 287-288 V. How to Think in L...

Haud dubia res est, quippe inter Hannibalem ducem et centurionem; exercitusque, alterum vincendo veteranum, alterum novum totum, magna ex parte etiam tumultuarium et semiermem....

Professor Tyrrell says: 'It is interesting to point to places in which Lucretius or his predecessors had really anticipated modern scientific research. Thus Lucretius recognises...

A pretentious and smartly written work abounding in mistakes, contradictions, and misrepresentations of historical truth. It was, however, popular in the Middle Ages on account...

'Quintilian with admirable clearness insists on the great truth that bad education is responsible for bad life, and expresses with equal plainness the complementary truth that e...

+88-86+ +First Civil War (between Marius and Sulla)+ ---------------------------------------- PERIOD II.--THE GOLDEN AGE OF LATIN LITERATURE, 80 B.C.-14 A.D. -------------------...

For his military and political career, his Consulship (195 B.C.), his famous Censorship (184 B.C.), and his social reforms, see some good history, e.g. Mommsen, vol, iii.

Hannibali alia in his locis bene gerendae rei fortuna oblata est. |I| M. Centenius fuit cognomine Paenula, insignis inter primipili centuriones et magnitudine corporis et animo....

'Tibullus is pre-eminently Roman in his genius and poetry. He is the natural poet of warm, tender, and simple feeling. Neither Greek mythology nor Alexandrine learning had any a...

The flexibility and elasticity of rhythm of the finest Greek elegiacs he made his own. The pentameter, instead of being a weaker echo of the hexameter, is the stronger line of t...

The _purpose of the Georgics_ is to ennoble the annual round of labour in which the rural life was passed and to help the policy of Augustus by inducing the people to go back to...

390 +Invasion of the Gauls+. Battle of the _Allia_ Artaxerxes II 405-359 Burning of Rome (+Brennus+) Expedition of Cyrus the Younger (The _Anabasis_ of Xenophon) 401 +Manlius Ca...

" II. " 57. The Nervii, the bravest Belgian tribe, almost exterminated. " III. " 56. Conquest of the coast tribes of Brittany (Veneti, &c.) and of the South-West (Aquitani). " I...

578-534 SERVIUS TULLIUS. The Census, basis of _Comitia Centuriata_. The Servian Wall includes the Quirinal, Viminal and Esquiline hills, i.e. Rome of Republican times. Captivity...

Books III-VII are occupied with an exhaustive treatment of the _matter_ of oratory, and are highly technical. 'Now that the formal study of the art of rhetoric has ceased to be...

_Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, Quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur. Death therefore to us is nothing, concerns us not a jot, Since the nature of the mi...

friendship (El. 7. 12. 22) and events of national interest (El. 4. 11. 18). The poet struggles to emancipate himself from the thraldom of Cynthia and to accomplish work more wor...