"             "     in matter 11 Original character, partly Roman, partly Italian 13 National spirit 14 Imaginative sentiment 15 Moral feeling 16 Italian element in Roman Poetry 17 Love of Nature 17 Passion of Love 19 Personal element in Roman Poetry 20 Four Periods of Roman Poetry 23 Character of each 24 Conclusion 26

CHAPTER II.

VESTIGES OF INDIGENOUS POETRY IN ROME AND ANCIENT ITALY.

Niebuhr's theory of a Ballad-Poetry 28 The Saturnian metre 29 Ritual Hymns 31 Prophetic verses 33 Fescennine verses 34 Saturae[page viii] 36 Gnomic verses 37 Commemorative verses 37 Inferences as to their character 38        "        from early state of the language 39 No public recognition of Poetry 40 Roman story result of tradition and reflection 41 Inferences from the nature of Roman religion 43        "        from the character and pursuits of the people 44 Roman Poetry of Italian rather than Roman origin 45

FIRST PERIOD.

FROM LIVIUS ANDRONICUS TO LUCILIUS.

CHAPTER III.

BEGINNING OF ROMAN LITERATURE. LIVIUS ANDRONICUS,
CN. NAEVIUS, 240-202 b.c.

Contact with Greece after capture of Tarentum 47 First period of Roman literature 49 Forms of Poetry during this period 50 Livius Andronicus 51 Cn. Naevius, his life 52 Dramas