Roman writers?

[Noisms]

Julius Caesar is in the list, but that was the only one I spotted. How about Tacitus or Suetonius? Both wrote famous historical accounts that I'm sure are digitally available. (Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars, Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome.)

[libernaut]

none of the poets besides vergil either... kinda sucks

[Logos]

The site is a work in progress :) more info here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17769

[Noisms]

The site is a work in progress :) more info here:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17769

Tch, one step ahead of me, eh? ;)

[quasimodo1]

Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes
Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, writer and orator 106-43 BC


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Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.




The more laws, the less justice.




A room without books is like a body without a soul.




Law stands mute in the midst of arms.




A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.




Let the punishment match the offense.




Life is nothing without friendship.




An unjust peace is better than a just war




Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.




While there's life, there's hope.

[quasimodo1]

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/226 Just a better sample of Cicero...his famous orations...free e-book from P. Guttenburg. quasimodo1

[quasimodo1]

Oh and one of the first formulations of law in book (libris) format, the Justinian Code...http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/summer2004/summer2004JustinianCode.htm

[quasimodo1]

I. Before, O conscript fathers, I say those things concerning the
republic which I think myself bound to say at the present time, I
will explain to you briefly the cause of my departure from, and of
my return to the city. When I hoped that the republic was at last
recalled to a proper respect for your wisdom and for your authority, I
thought that it became me to remain in a sort of sentinelship, which
was imposed upon me by my position as a senator and a man of consular
rank. Nor did I depart anywhere, nor did I ever take my eyes off from
the republic, from the day on which we were summoned to meet in the
temple of Tellus,[3] in which temple, I, as far as was in my power,
laid the foundations of peace, and renewed the ancient precedent set
by the Athenians, I even used the Greek word,[4] which that city
employed in those times in allaying discords, and gave my vote that
all recollection of the existing dissensions ought to be effaced by
everlasting oblivion.
{An oration by M.T.Cicero after Caesar's assasination, addressing the senate.}

[Charles Darnay]

After having to read 150 pages of Cicero last term....I started to really dislike Cicero :)

[Logos]

Noisms and libernaut, thanks for bringing this up, I've added their names and more to the growing list of authors to be added to the site :)

Now moved from Book Requests to General Literature.

[Quark]

Interesting, no one mentions Horace.

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

[quasimodo1]

Ode 1.1
Source: Weights and Measures (1917), pp. 75-76
Chacun a Son Gout

Maecenas of the bluest blood,
My guard revered, my glory noble,
One man acquires Olympic mud
Upon his racing automob'le,
And winning of an earthly prize
Exalts him to the well-known skies.

Another finds applause is sweet --
The praise of Rome, as loud as fickle;
Another takes his joy in wheat,
In watching it from seed to sickle;
And in his granary he stores
Sweepings from the Libyan threshing-floors.

The man who loves to plough the field
Has no desire to plough the ocean;
His farm delights he will not yield
To sailor joys. Perish the notion!
The trader trembles at the gale,
Yet, once on land, longs to set sail.

One there may be that doth recline
Flushing his arid pipe thoracic
With beakers -- ay, with bowls! -- of wine;
The brand? The best domestic massic.
Ewcline as I began to say,
Beneath a tree for half a day.

Some love the wars that mothers fear,
The toot of trump, the blare of bugle;
Some like to hunt the boar or deer,
Unmindful of the ties conjugal.
For me nor hunts nor war's alarms;
For me nor motorcars nor farms.

Ivy for me! The grove for mine!
Where nymphs and satyrs hold high revel.
Where I can join the gods divine,
A bit above the lowbrow level.
And if you say: "Some bard, this guy!"
My soaring head shall touch the sky.

Translation from Horace by Franklin P. Adams

[Quark]

That's what I'm talking about

[Dori]

How about Ovid (The Metamorphosis) and Catullus (although he was rather sexually explicit)? Livy (Ab Urbe Condita) and Valerius Maximus (De Viris Illustribus)? All romans with notable works.

[quasimodo1]

I can go for Ovid, Catullus and Livy and add Josephus but Valerius Maximus is stilted, even in Latin. quasimodo1

[Charles Darnay]

Ovid is great. I've always wanted to read more into L'amours.

[satyrane]

Quintilian (Institutio oratoria); or later authors such as Lactantius and Macrobius? Also, although he is by no means a Roman author in the classical sense, could Petrarch be added to the site (as he was - and is - an hugely important figure)?

[amanda_isabel]

Terene and Seneca were the Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides, from a theatrical standpoint, of Rome. try them.. many say though, that the early Greek dramatists had better work.. whatever they were able to find of it.

[quasimodo1]

IV
Borysthenes Alanus,
the swift horse of Caesar,
who was accustomed to fly
through the sea and the marshes
and the Etruscan mounds,
while pursuing Pannonian boars, not one boar
dared him to harm
with his white tooth:
the saliva from his mouth
scattered even the meanest tail,
as it is custom to happen.
But killed on a day in his youth,
his healthy, invulnerable body
has been buried here in the field.
(a Poem by Hadrian)