The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
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Contents
- Vol. II—Rome
- Cato, the Censor
- Cicero
- I. The Blessings of Old Age
- II. On the Death of His Daughter Tullia
- III. Of Brave and Elevated Spirits
- IV. Of Scipio's Death and of Friendship
- Julius Cæsar
- I. The Building of the Bridge Across the Rhine
- II. The Invasion of Britain
- III. Overcoming the Nervii
- IV. The Battle of Pharsalia and the Death of Pompey (48 b.c.)
- Sallust
- I. The Genesis of Catiline
- II. The Fate of the Conspirators
- Livy
- I. Horatius Cocles at the Bridge (About 510 b.c.)
- II. Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps (218 b.c.)
- III. Hannibal and Scipio at Zama (202 b.c.)
- Seneca
- I. Of the Wise Man
- II. Of Consolation for the Loss of Friends
- III. To Nero on Clemency
- IV. The Pilot
- V. Of a Happy Life
- Pliny the Elder
- I. The Qualities of the Dog
- II. Three Great Artists of Greece
- Quintilian
- Tacitus
- I. From Republican to Imperial Rome
- II. The Funeral of Germanicus (19 a.d.)
- III. The Death of Seneca (65 a.d.)
- IV. The Burning of Rome by Order of Nero (64 a.d.)
- V. The Burning of the Capitol at Rome (69 a.d.)
- VI. The Siege of Cremona (69 a.d.)
- VII. Agricola
- Pliny the Younger
- I. Of the Christians in His Province
- II. To Tacitus on the Eruption of Vesuvius (79 a.d.)
- Suetonius
- I. The Last Days of Augustus (14 a.d.)
- II. The Good Deeds of Nero
- III. The Death of Nero (68 a.d.)
- Marcus Aurelius