Latin From All Time Periods

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Table of contents:

Language

• Handbook for Latin Language Clubs by Susan Paxson
• Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge
• New Latin Grammar by Charles Bennett
• Ritche's Fabulae Faciles: a First Latin Reader by John Kirtland
• Roman Pronunciation of Latin: why we use it and how to use it by Frances Lord

Collections and books about literature in Latin

• Apicius -- Librorum X Qui Dicuntur De Re Coquinaria Quae Extant (in Latin) a collection of Roman recipes compiled inthe late 4th or early 5th century   brief explanation at Wikipedia
• Best of the World's Classics, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, volume 2, Rome
• The History of Roman Literature: form the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Cruttwell
• Latin Literature by J.W. Mackail
• Lays of Ancient Rome translated by Thomas Macaulay
• Opuscula Selecta Neerlandicorum de Arte Medica (includes works by erasmus, Leeuwenhoek, Swammerdam, Boerhaave, Gaubius, and Donders in Lain, with commentary in Dutch)

Ancient Rome

Lucius Apuleius (123/5 - 180) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Cupid and Psyche
• in English translation
• The Golden Ass, translated to English by William Adlington

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation

• Meditations
• Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, Long's translation, edted by Edwin Ginn (same as above, different translation)
• Thoughts (a third translation)

Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310 - 395 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Mosella

Julius Caesar (100 - 44 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• The Gallic War/Commentaries (De Bello Gallico)

• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Books 5 to 8
• Commentary on the Latin text
• Rice Holmes' commentary on The Gallic War, in English
• Preface
• On Book 1
• On Book 2
• On Book 3
• Geographical Index
• Appendix
• In English transation
• Commentaries, translated by W.A. MacDevitt
• about Julius Caesar
• Caesar: a Sketch by Jame Froude
• History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott, 1904

Marcus Porcius Cato (234 - 149 BC) brief bio at Wikipeida

• in English translation

• Roman Farm Management: Treatises of Cato and Varro translated by a Virginia Farmer

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 - 54 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Poems
• Songs to Youth (short)
• in English
• The Poems and Fragments of Catullus, translated in the metres of the original by Robinson Ellis, 1871
• The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, translated by Richard Burton

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Cato Maior de Senectute
• Four speeches against Cataline
• Miscellaneous Speeches
• In C. Verrem
• Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta
• Pro Q. Ligario
• Pro M. Marcello
• in English translation
• Academica, translated by James Reid
• De Amicita and Scipio's Dream
• Essays on Friendship and Old Age, translated to English by E. S. Shuckburgh
• Letters, translated by E.S. Shuckburgh
• Letters, volume 1, 68-52 BC, translated by E.S. Shuckburgh
• The Orations of Cicero, translated by C.D. Yonge, 1912
• Tusculan Disputations, translated by C.D. Yonge
• about Cicero
• Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope
• volume 1 of 2
• Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators, translated by E. Jones
• Roman Life in the Days of Cicero by Alfred Church
• Cicero by W. Lucas Collins

Cassius Dio (c. 155 - after 229 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• Dio's Rome translated by Herbert Baldwin Foster
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6

Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 - 103 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in French translation
• Les Quatres Livres des Strategemes, translated from Latin to French by M. Ch. Bailly

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 - 8 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• The Art of Poetry, an Epistle to The Pisos, translated by George Colman, also in Latin
• Epodes
• Songs, Book 1
• Odes and Epodes, edited by Paul Shorey
• in English translation
• Odes and Carmen Saeculare
• Satires, Epistles
• Works of Horace, translated by C. Smart
• about Horace
• Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman

Livy (Titus Livius) (c. 59 BC - 17 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Ab Urbe Condita
• Editor's Preface
• Preface
• Book 1
• in English translation
• The History of Rome, books 1-8, translated by D. Spillan
• Roman History translated by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
• Books 1-3
• Books 9-26
• Books 27-36
• about Livy
• Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Macchivelli, translated by Ninian Thomson, 1883

Longinus (first or third century AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• On the Sublime translated by H.L. Havell

Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) (39 - 65 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• Pharsalia

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (c. 94 - c. 49 BC)

• in English translation
• Of the Nature of Things, translated to English by William Emery Leonard

Cornelius Nepos (c. 100 - 24 BC)

• in Latin
• Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus (The Book of Excellent Leaders)
• Preface
• Life of Agesilaus
• Life of Aristides
• Life of Cimon
• Life of Dion
• Life of Epaminondas
• Life of Hamilcar
• Life of Hannibal
• Life of Lysander
• Life of Miltiades
• Life of Pausanias
• Life of Themistocles

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 BC - 17 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Fasti, edited by Thomas Keightley
• Heroides
• in English translation
• The Metamorphoses, volume 1, books 1-7, tanslated by Henry T. Riley

Petronius (c. 27 - 66 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• Satyricon, translated by W.C. Firebaugh

Titus Maccius Plautus (254 -184 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, also includes English translation by Paul Nixon Amphitryon, (The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Baccises, and The Captives)
• in English translation
• The Captiva and the Mostarelli translated by Henry Thomas Riley

Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63 - c. 113 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger by E.A. Lowe (also in English, with lengthy commentary in English)
• in English translation
• Letters
• Letters of Pliny, translated by William Melmoth

Sextis Propertius (c. 50 - c. 15/2 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Elegies, book 1

Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) (348 - c. 413 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Poems
• Poem 1
• Poem 2
• Poem 3
• Poem 4
• Poem 5
• Poem 6
• Poem 7
• Poem 8
• Poem 9
• Poem 10
• Poem 11
• Poem 12
• Poem 13
• Poem 14
• Hymns of Prudentius, in Latin and translated by R. Martin Pope

Marcus Fabius Quintillianus (35-100 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Institutionis Oratoriae, book 10

Sallust (Gaius sallusius Crispus) (86 - 34 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• The Cataline Conspiracy
• The Jugurthine War
• in English translation
• The Conspiracy of Cataline and the Jugurthine War translated by John Selby Watson
• De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino

L. Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC - 65 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• Apocolocyntosis, translated by W.H.M. Rouse, 1920
• On Benefits, translated to English by Aubrey Stewart

Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) (c. 69/75 - after 130 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• Lives of the 12 Caesars, plus Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets translated by Alexander Thomson

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56 - c. 117 AD) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• Dialogue Concerning Oratory or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
• The Germany and the Agricola
• The Germania and Agricola
• The Histories, volumes 1 and 2, translated by W. Hamliton Fyfe
• The Reign of Tiberius (first six books of the Annals), translated by Thomas Gordon
• about Tacitus
• Tacitus and Bracciolini: the Annals Forged in the 15th Century by John Wilson Ross (1818-1887)

Albius Tibullus (c. 54 - 19 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Songs
• Book 1
• Book 2
• in English translation
• Elegies of Tibullus, translated by Theodore Williams, 1908

Marcus Terentius Varro (116 - 27 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Libris Grammaticis
• in English translation
• Roman Farm Management: Treatises of Cato and Varro translated by a Virginia Farmer

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70 - 19 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Aeneid
• Eclogues
• Georgics
• in English translation
• Aeneid
• Aeneid translated into English verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
• Eclogues
• Georgics
• The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad
• about Virgil
• Vergil, a biography by Tenney Frank
• Quelques recherches sur le tombeau de Virgile au Mont Pausilipe by G. Peignot, in French, 1840

Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) (80/70 - c. 25 BC) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• The Ten Books on Architecture translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

Bible

• in Latin
• Daniel
• Esther
• Jonah
• in English translation
• Daniel
• Esther
• Jonah

Medieval

Anonymous

• in Latin and English
• Wine, Women and Song: Medieval Latin STudents' Songs, translated by John Addington Symonds

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 - 524 or 525) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• The Consolation of Philosophy, in English as well as Latin

Cassiodorus (Flavius Magnus Aurelius Casssiodorus Senator (c. 485 - c. 585) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in English translation
• Letters, condensed

16th Century

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469 - 1536) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Encomium Artis Medicae, 1526
• Selections from Erasmus, edited by P.S. Allen

Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552 - 1616) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, volume 2, Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries
• in English translation
• The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, volume 2, Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• 95 Theses, in Latin and English, 1517

Melanchthon, Philipp, (1497-1560) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• The Augsburg Confession in Latin and English, 1530

Bodin, Jean, (1530 - 1596) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis

17th Century

Diego Collado ( -1638) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae, 1632

18th Century

Boerhaave, Herman, (1668 - 1738) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• De Usu Ratiocinii Mechanici in Medicina. 1703

Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705 - 1780)

• in Latin
• Oratio Inauguralis qua Ostenditur Chemiam Artibus Academicis Jure Esse Inserendam (1731)

19th Century

Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779 - 1848) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Nova Analysis Aquarum Medeviensium, 1800 [ a scientific paper about the quality of the water at the health spa at medevi in Sweden]

Ulysse Chevalier (1841 - 1923) brief bio at Wikipedia

• in Latin
• Chartularium Ecclesiae Sancti Petri de Burgo Valentiae Ordinis Sancti Augustini

Rudolf Pohl (1879 - ?)

• in Latin
• De Graecorum Medicis Publicis, 1905