W. Y. Sellar

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

CONTENTS.

CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA.

CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTER OF ROMAN POETRY.

CHAPTER II. VESTIGES OF EARLY INDIGENOUS POETRY IN ROME AND ANCIENT ITALY.

CHAPTER III. THE BEGINNING OF ROMAN LITERATURE LIVIUS ANDRONICUS CN. NAEVIUS, B.C. 240-202.

CHAPTER IV. ENNIUS.

CHAPTER V. EARLY ROMAN TRAGEDY M. PACUVIUS, B.C. 219-129; L. ACCIUS, B.C. 170-ABOUT B.C. 90.

CHAPTER VI. ROMAN COMEDY. PLAUTUS. ABOUT 254 TO 184 B.C.

CHAPTER VII. TERENCE AND THE COMIC POETS SUBSEQUENT TO PLAUTUS.

CHAPTER VIII. EARLY ROMAN SATIRE C. LUCILIUS, DIED 102 B.C.

CHAPTER IX. REVIEW OF THE FIRST PERIOD.

CHAPTER X. TRANSITION FROM LUCILIUS TO LUCRETIUS AND CATULLUS.

CHAPTER XI. LUCRETIUS. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS.

CHAPTER XII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LUCRETIUS.

CHAPTER XIII. THE RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE AND MORAL TEACHING OF LUCRETIUS.

CHAPTER XIV. THE LITERARY ART AND GENIUS OF LUCRETIUS.

CHAPTER XV. CATULLUS.

Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

The corrigenda et addenda listed on page xvi have been applied to the text.

Page 167: Original text 'curosity' replaced with 'curiosity'.

Page 139: Original text in footnote 'Thon' replaced with 'Thou'.

Page 359: Latin 'At, credo' more usually seen as 'An, credo' but text in this book not altered.

THE ROMAN POETS
OF
THE REPUBLIC

SELLAR

London

HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE

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THE ROMAN POETS
OF
THE REPUBLIC

BY

W. Y. SELLAR, M.A., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF HUMANITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
AND
FORMERLY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

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J. C. SHAIRP, M.A. LL.D.,

PRINCIPAL OF THE UNITED COLLEGE, ST. ANDREWS,
PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF MUCH ACTIVE AND GENEROUS KINDNESS,
AND OF
A LONG AND STEADY FRIENDSHIP,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.