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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
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CÆSAR, MARCUS AURELIUS, CICERO, and SENECA
THE BEST
of the
World's Classics
RESTRICTED TO PROSE
HENRY CABOT LODGE
Editor-in-Chief
FRANCIS W. HALSEY
Associate Editor
With an Introduction, Biographical and
Explanatory Notes, etc.
IN TEN VOLUMES
Vol. II
ROME
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright, 1909, by
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
The Best of the World's Classics
VOL. II
ROME
234 b.c.—180 a.d.
CONTENTS
Vol. II—Rome
| Page | |||
| Cato the Censor—(Born in 234 b.c., died in 149.) | |||
| Of Work on a Roman Farm. | 3 | ||
| (From "De Re Rustica." Translated by Dr. E. Wilson) | |||
| Cicero—(Born in 106 b.c., assassinated in 43.) | |||
| I | The Blessings of Old Age. | 8 | |
| (From the "Cato Major." Translated by Cyrus R. Edmonds) | |||
| II | On the Death of His Daughter Tullia. (A letter to Sulpicius) | 34 | |
| III | Of Brave and Elevated Spirits. | 37 | |
| (From Book I of the "Offices." Translated by Cyrus R. Edmonds) | |||
| IV | Of Scipio's Death and of Friendship. | 43 | |
| From the "Dialog on Friendship." (Translated by Cyrus R. Edmonds) | |||
| Julius Cæsar—(Born in 100 b.c., assassinated in 44.) | |||
| I | The Building of the Bridge Across the Rhine. | 61 | |
| (From Book IV of the "Commentaries on the Gallic War." Translated by McDivett and W. S. Bohn) | |||
| II | The Invasion of Britain. | 64 | |
| (From Book V of the "Commentaries on the Gallic War." Translated by McDivett and Bohn) | |||
| III | Overcoming the Nervii. | 71 | |
| (From Book II of the "Commentaries on the Gallic War." Translated by McDivett and Bohn) | |||
| IV | The Battle of Pharsalia and the Death of Pompey. | 78 | |
| (From Book III of the "Commentaries on the Gallic War." Translated by McDivett and Bohn) | |||
| Sallust—(Born about 86 b.c., died about 34.) | |||
| I | |||