Best of
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
作者：Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 [Editor]; Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919 [Editor]
体例：题 章数：114
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章节目录
共 114 题- THE BEST
- WORLD'S CLASSICS
- RESTRICTED TO PROSE
- HENRY CABOT LODGE
- FRANCIS W. HALSEY
- IN TEN VOLUMES
- Vol. II
- ROME
- FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
- NEW YORK AND LONDON
- COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
- FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
- The Best of the World's Classics
- VOL. II
- ROME
- 234 B.C.--180 A.D.
- CONTENTS
- VOL. II--ROME
- CATO THE CENSOR--(Born in 234 B.C., died in 149.)
- CICERO--(Born in 106 B.C., assassinated in 43.)
- II On the Death of His Daughter Tullia. (A letter to Sulpicius)
- JULIUS CAESAR--(Born in 100 B.C., assassinated in 44.)
- SALLUST--(Born about 86 B.C., died about 34.)
- Livy--(Born in 59 B.C., died in 17 A.D.)
- SENECA--(Born about 4 B.C., died in 65 A.D.)
- PLINY THE ELDER--(Born in 23 A.D., perished in the Eruption of Vesuvius.)
- QUINTILIAN--(Born about 35 A.D., died about 95.)
- TACITUS--(Born about 55 A.D., died about 117.)
- PLINY THE YOUNGER--(Born in 63 A.D., died in 113.)
- SUETONIUS--(Lived in the first half of the second century A.D.)
- MARCUS AURELIUS--(Born in 121 A.D., died in 180.)
- ROME
- 234 B.C.--180 A.D.
- CATO, THE CENSOR
- OF WORK ON A ROMAN FARM[2]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CICERO
- THE BLESSINGS OF OLD AGE[4]
- II
- ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER TULLIA[22]
- III
- OF BRAVE AND ELEVATED SPIRITS[23]
- IV
- OF SCIPIO'S DEATH AND OF FRIENDSHIP[28]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JULIUS CAESAR
- THE BUILDING OF THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE RHINE[34]
- II
- THE INVASION OF BRITAIN[36]
- III
- OVERCOMING THE NERVII[44]
- IV
- THE BATTLE OF PHARSALIA AND THE DEATH OF POMPEY[46]
- FOOTNOTES:
- SALLUST
- THE GENESIS OF CATILINE[59]
- II
- THE FATE OF THE CONSPIRATORS[62]
- FOOTNOTES:
- LIVY
- HORATIUS COCLES AT THE BRIDGE[68]
- II
- HANNIBAL'S CROSSING OF THE ALPS[70] (218 B.C.)
- III
- HANNIBAL AND SCIPIO AT ZAMA[72]
- FOOTNOTES:
- SENECA
- OF THE WISE MAN[76]
- II
- OF CONSOLATION FOR THE LOSS OF FRIENDS[78]
- III
- TO NERO ON CLEMENCY[82]
- IV
- THE PILOT[84]
- OF A HAPPY LIFE[85]
- FOOTNOTES:
- PLINY THE ELDER
- THE QUALITIES OF THE DOG[86]
- II
- THREE GREAT ARTISTS OF GREECE[93]
- FOOTNOTES:
- QUINTILIAN
- THE ORATOR MUST BE A GOOD MAN[100]
- FOOTNOTES:
- TACITUS
- FROM REPUBLICAN TO IMPERIAL ROME[102]
- II
- THE FUNERAL OF GERMANICUS[106]
- III
- THE DEATH OF SENECA[113]
- IV
- THE BURNING OF ROME BY ORDER OF NERO[116]
- THE BURNING OF THE CAPITOL AT ROME[125]
- VI
- THE SIEGE OF CREMONA[128]
- VII
- AGRICOLA[132]
- FOOTNOTES:
- PLINY THE YOUNGER
- OF THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS PROVINCE[137]
- II
- TO TACITUS ON THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS[139]
- FOOTNOTES:
- SUETONIUS
- THE LAST DAYS OF AUGUSTUS[146]
- II
- THE GOOD DEEDS OF NERO[150]
- III
- THE DEATH OF NERO[155]
- FOOTNOTES:
- MARCUS AURELIUS
- HIS DEBT TO OTHERS[158]
- FOOTNOTES:
- END OF VOLUME II.