Transcriber’s Note:
Volume 2 is available as Project Gutenberg ebook number 51444.
THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D.
EDITED BY
† T. E. PAGE, C.H., LITT.D.
† E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. † W. H. D. ROUSE, LITT.D.
L. A. POST, L.H.D. E. H. WARMINGTON, M.A., F.R.HIST.SOC.
CLAUDIAN
I
CLAUDIAN
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
MAURICE PLATNAUER
SOMETIME HONORARY SCHOLAR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
ASSISTANT MASTER AT WINCHESTER COLLEGE
IN TWO VOLUMES
I
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
MCMLXIII
_First printed_ 1922
_Reprinted_ 1956, 1963
_Printed in Great Britain_
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
PAGE
INTRODUCTION vii
POEMS--
PANEGYRIC ON THE CONSULS PROBINUS AND OLYBRIUS 2
THE FIRST BOOK AGAINST RUFINUS--
PREFACE 24
BOOK I 26
THE SECOND BOOK AGAINST RUFINUS--
PREFACE 56