An Anthology of Latin Prose

This anthology fills a gap which has been widely felt. It gives students - at sixth-form undergraduate or junior graduate level - the opportunity of sampling a very wide variety of Latin prose texts chosen to illustrate both development and generic differences. Each of the 96 passages is accompanied by a short introduction and there are brief notes explaining difficult words and drawing attention to linguistic and stylistic points occurring in the extracts. The extracts range from the second century BC to the fifth century AD: Cato the Censor C. Gracchus and the annalists; Cicero (oratory letters philosophical treatises); the historians (Sallust Livy and Tacitus); non-historical prose (Seneca Vitruvius Pliny Apuleius Tertullian); and finally some early Patristic texts and extracts from the Vulgate.