1. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 1.213-1.228 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
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2. Cebes of Thebes, Cebetis Tabula, 1.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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3. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 86, 88-89, 85 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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4. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 86, 88-89, 85 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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5. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 34.84, 36.32 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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6. Statius, Siluae, 4.6.59 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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7. Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe And Cleitophon, 1.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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8. Lucian, Amores, 8, 15 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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9. Lucian, Hercules, 4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
| 4. For a long time I stood staring at this in amazement: I knew not what to make of it, and was beginning to feel somewhat nettled, when I was addressed in admirable Greek by a Gaul who stood at my side, and who besides possessing a scholarly acquaintance with the Gallic mythology, proved to be not unfamiliar with our own. ‘Sir,’ he said, ‘I see this picture puzzles you: let me solve the riddle. We Gauls connect eloquence not with Hermes, as you do, but with the mightier Heracles. Nor need it surprise you to see him represented as an old man. It is the prerogative of eloquence, that it reaches perfection in old age; at least if we may believe your poets, who tell us thatYouth is the sport of every random gust,whereas old ageHath that to say that passes youthful wit.Thus we find that from Nestor’s lips honey is distilled; and that the words of the Trojan counsellors are compared to the lily, which, if I have not forgotten my Greek, is the name of a flower. |
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10. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 16.10.14 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
| 16.10.14. For he did not (as in the case of other cities) permit the contests to be terminated at his own discretion, but left them (as the custom is) to various chances. Then, as he surveyed the sections of the city and its suburbs, lying within the summits of the seven hills, along their slopes, or on level ground, he thought that whatever first met his gaze towered above all the rest: the sanctuaries of Tarpeian Jove so far surpassing as things divine excel those of earth; the baths built up to the measure of provinces; the huge bulk of the amphitheatre, strengthened by its framework of Tiburtine stone, Travertine. to whose top human eyesight barely ascends; the Pantheon like a rounded city-district, Regio here refers to one of the regions, or districts, into which the city was divided. vaulted over in lofty beauty; and the exalted heights which rise with platforms to which one may mount, and bear the likenesses of former emperors; The columns of Trajan, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius. The platform at the top was reached by a stairway within the column. the Temple of the City, The double temple of Venus and Roma, built by Hadriian and dedicated in A.D. 135 the Forum of Peace, The Forum Pacis, or Vespasiani, was begun by Vespasian in A.D. 71, after the taking of Jerusalem, and dedicated in 75. It lay behind the basilica Aemilia. the Theatre of Pompey, Built in 55 B.C. in the Campus Martius. the Oleum, A building for musical performances, erected by Domitian, probably near his Stadium. the Stadium, The Stadium of Domitian in the Campus Martius, the shape and size of which is almost exactly preserved by the modern Piazza Navona. and amongst these the other adornments of the Eternal City. |
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11. Prudentius, On The Crown of Martyrdom, 9 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
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