THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS, OUT OF THE FIRST SIX ANNALS OF TACITUS; WITH HIS ACCOUNT OF GERMANY, AND LIFE OF AGRICOLA TRANSLATED BY THOMAS GORDON, AND EDITED BY ARTHUR GALTON.   “Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui Promis et celas, aliusque et idem Nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma Visere maius.” CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE ANNALS, BOOK I […]

THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS; WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, NOTES, SUPPLEMENTS, &c. BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ. Præcipuum munus annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis dictis factisque ex posteritate et infamiâ metus sit. TACITUS, Annales, iii. s. 65. A NEW EDITION, WITH THE AUTHOR’S LAST CORRECTIONS. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. VIII. […]

19 BC THE AENEID by Virgil BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV BOOK V BOOK VI BOOK VII BOOK VIII BOOK IX BOOK X BOOK XI BOOK XII BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore. Long […]

L. ANNAEUS SENECA, ON BENEFITS   By Seneca   Edited by Aubrey Stewart PREFACE Seneca, the favourite classic of the early fathers of the church and of the Middle Ages, whom Jerome, Tertullian, and Augustine speak of as “Seneca noster,” who was believed to have corresponded with St. Paul, and upon whom [Footnote: On the […]

ALCIBIADES II   by An Imatator of Plato (see Appendix II) Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX II. ALCIBIADES II APPENDIX II. The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of […]

LESSER HIPPIAS   by Plato (see Appendix I)  Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX I. LESSER HIPPIAS INTRODUCTION. APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian […]

ALCIBIADES I   by Plato (see Appendix I)   Translated by Benjamin Jowett APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later […]

ERYXIAS   By a Platonic Imitator Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX II. INTRODUCTION. ERYXIAS APPENDIX II. The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of Platonic dialogues to be assigned […]

THEAETETUS   By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. THEAETETUS INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and […]

TIMAEUS   by Plato   Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Section 1. Section 2. Section 3. Section 4. Section 5. Section 6. Section 7. Section 8. TIMAEUS INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had […]