Produced by Michael Gray, alumnus, Santa Clara University
Classics Department
BostonALLYN AND BACON1908
THIS little book has been prepared to meet the needs of my own classes.The selections have been made primarily with reference to their literarymerit, but also with the intention of introducing the student to anumber of authors not usually read in the earlier portion of the collegecourse.
The notes are greatly indebted to the works named under the heading,
'Reference.'
I am under obligations to Professor E. C. Morris of Syracuse University
for the correction of the manuscript of the notes, and to Mr. N. L.
Willey, Syracuse University, 1908, for assistance in proof-reading.
C. C. B.
SYRACUSE, N.Y.
1. The Lament for Romulus.
Pectora fida tenet desiderium: simul inter sese sic memorant, 'o Romule, Romule die, qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! O pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum, tu produxisti nos intra luminis oras.' 5
2. Pyrrhus dismissing the Prisoners without Ransom.
Nec mi aurum posco nec mi pretium dederitis: nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes ferro, non auro, vitam cernamus utrique. Vosne velit an me regnare era quidve ferat Fors virtute experiamur. Et hoc simul accipe dictum: 5 quorum virtuti belli fortuna pepercit eorundem libertati me parcere certumst. Dono ducite doque volentibus cum magnis dis.
3. M.' Curius.
Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro.
4. Q. Fabius Maximus.
Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem; noenum rumores ponebat ante salutem; ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret.
5. The Strength of Rome.
Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.
6. A Bereaved Father's Fortitude.
Égo cum genui, túm morituros scívi et ei re sústuli. Praéterea ad Troiám cum misi ob défendendam Graéciam, scíbam me in mortíferum bellum, nón in epulas míttere.
7. 'Gods Careless of Mankind.'
Égo deum genus ésse semper díxi et dicam caélitum, séd eos non curáre opinor, quíd agat humanúm genus; nám si curent, béne bonis sit, mále malis; quod núnc abest.
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