The History of Roman Literature From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius

CHAPTER V.

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_Prose Writers of the Augustan Age._

Oratory Neglected--Declamation takes its place--Porcius Latro--Annaeus Seneca--History--Livy--Opportune appearance of his work--Criticism of his method--Pompeius Trogus--Vitruvius--Grammarians--Fenestella--Verrius Flaccus--Hyginus--Law and philosophy.

APPENDIX.--Note I. A _Suasoria_ translated from Seneca, " II. Some Observations on the Theory of Rhetoric, from Quintilian, Book III.