On Exile. Now with enhanced navigation. Your current position in the text is marked in blue. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal details animate the fictional world conjured up by these oratorical exercises. Apology. Horoscopes (2). This work by Aristotle is more commonly known as De Interpretatione (Latin) or On Interpretation (English). Thebaid, Volume II: Books 8-12. The Braggart Soldier. Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus. [107] We must realize also that we are invested by Nature with two characters, as it were: one of these is universal, arising from the fact of our being all alike endowed with reason and with that superiority which lifts us above the brute. Minucius Felix: Octavius. Simonides Ulcers. On Praising Oneself Inoffensively. Who Is the Heir of Divine Things? See more. Lucian (c. 120190 CE), apprentice sculptor then travelling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand of satire. Pane. 380 BCE) took the side of democracy against the Thirty Tyrants in 404 BCE. Herodas Tredennick, Hugh In Fasti, Ovid (43 BCE17 CE) sets forth explanations of the festivals and sacred rites that were noted on the Roman calendar, and relates in graphic detail the legends attached to specific dates. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius, Lives, Volume X: Agis and Cleomenes. Lamb, W. R. M. Works in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (erōs) or friendship (philia). [, But a still closer social union exists between kindred. In his Gallic War and Civil Wars, Caesar (10044 BCE) provides vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, and largely unemotional records of his own campaigns. On the Fortune of the Romans. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes. Weather Signs, Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Letters, Orations, Volume VII: Orations 60-61: Funeral Speech. As examples of Greek oratory the speeches of Aeschines (390 or 389314 BCE) rank next to those of Demosthenes, and are important documents for the study of Athenian diplomacy and inner politics. Demetrius: On Style. A lexicon of therapeutic agents is included. Library of History, Volume I: Books 1-2.34. sympathetic, understanding. Mackail, J. W. Catullus (8454 BCE) couples consummate poetic artistry with intensity of feeling. In Method of Medicine, Galen (129199 CE) provides a comprehensive and influential account of the principles of treating injury and disease. [52] On this principle we have the following maxims: Deny no one the water that flows by; Let anyone who will take fire from our fire; Honest counsel give to one who is in doubt; for such acts are useful to the recipient and cause the giver no loss. De Officiis. For indifference to public opinion implies not merely self-sufficiency, but even total lack of principle. Such acts of generosity are not to be so highly esteemed as those which are performed with judgment deliberation, and mature consideration. The Twelve Tables. The Dipsads. [98] The poets will observe, therefore, amid a great variety of characters, what is suitable and proper for alleven for the bad. The epic Dionysiaca by Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt (fifth century CE) concerns Dionysus earthly career from birth at Thebes to reception on Olympus. Aeschiness powerful speeches include Against Timarchus, On the False Embassy, and Against Ctesiphon. He explicitly follows, to the degree that makes sense to him, a text by the modified Stoic philosopher, Panaetius, who had direct impact in the previous century on the statesmen Scipio and Laelius. Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesars campaigns during the civil war of 4948 BC, drawn from his three books of commentarii.