Minor Latin poets
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Bibliographic Information
Minor Latin poets
（The Loeb classical library, 284）
W. Heinemann , Harvard University Press, 1935
Rev. ed
- : us
- : uk
Available at 65 libraries
Note
Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages
First ed.: 1934
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first volume of an anthology of Latin poetry. The two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished ca. 45 BCE, and ending with the graphic and charming poem of Rutilius Namatianus recording a sea voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416 CE. A wide variety of theme gives interest to the poems: hunting in a poem of Grattius; an inquiry into the causes of volcanic activity by the author of Aetna; pastoral poems by Calpurnius Siculus and by Nemesianus; fables by Avianus; a collection of Dicta, moral sayings, as if by the elder Cato; eulogy in Laus Pisonis; and the legend of the Phoenix, a poem of the fourth century. Other poets complete the edition.
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