The History of Roman Literature From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius
CHAPTER V.
_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.