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Authors: Anthony Everitt
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NOTES
Abbreviations
Acad | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Academica ( Academics ) |
App Civ | | Appian, Civil Wars |
App Han | | Appian, War with Hannibal |
App Mith | | Appian, Mithridatic Wars |
App Pun | | Appian, Punic Wars |
App Samn | | Appian, Samnite Wars |
App Sic | | Appian, Sicilian Wars |
App Span | | Appian, Spanish Wars |
App Syr | | Appian, Syrian Wars |
Arist Pol | | Aristotle Politics |
Arr | | Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon), Anabasis of Alexander |
Arr Ind | | Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon), Indica ( Indian Matters ) |
Art | | Artemidorus, Oneirocritica |
Asc | | Asconius, Commentaries on Five Speeches of Cicero |
Ath | | Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae ( Learned Banqueters ) |
Aug Civ | | Augustine, De civitate dei ( On the City of God ) |
Aul Gell | | Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae ( Attic Nights ) |
Aur Vic Caes | | Aurelius Victor (attributed), de Caesaribus |
Aur Vic Vir | | Aurelius Victor (attributed), De viris illustribus |
Bib | | Bible |
Caes Civ | | Caesar, Gaius Julius, Commentarii de bello civili ( The Civil War ) |
CAH | | Cambridge Ancient History |
Cat | | Catullus, Carmina ( Odes ) |
Cat Agr | | Cato, Marcus Porcius, De agri cultura * ( On Farming ) |
Cic Acad | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Academica |
Cic Att | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Epistulae ad Atticum ( Letters to Atticus ) [I use the order and numbering of the D. R. Shackleton Bailey Loeb edition.] |
Cic Balb | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Pro Balbo ( In defense of Balbus ) |
Cic Brut | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Brutus |
Cic Div | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De divinatione ( On Divination ) |
Cic Fam | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Epistulae ad familiares ( Letters to His Friends ) [I use the order and numbering of the D. R. Shackleton Bailey Loeb edition.] |
Cic Fin | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De finibus bonorum et malorum ( On Ends of Good and Evil ) |
Cic Har | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De haruspicum responsis ( On the Responses of the Omen-Diviners ) |
Cic Invent | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De inventione ( On Rhetorical Invention ) |
Cic Off | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De officiis ( On Duties ) |
Cic Phil | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Philippicae ( The Philippics ) |
Cic Rep | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De re publica ( The Republic ) |
Cic Rosc Am | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Pro Roscio Amerino ( In Defense of Roscius Amerinus ) |
Cic Sen | | Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De senectute ( On Old Age ) |
CIL | | Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum |
CIS | | Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum |
Col Re Rust | | Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, De re rustica ( On Agriculture ) |
Corn Nep Ham | | Cornelius Nepos, Lives of Great Foreign Leaders, Life of Hamilcar |
Dio | | Cassius Dio, Roman History |
Dio Chrys | | Dio Chrysostom, Orations |
Dio of H | | Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities |
Dio Sic | | Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library |
Eccl | | Ecclesiastes, Book of, Bible |
Enn | | Ennius, Quintus, Annales (Annals) |
Eutrop | | Eutropius, Flavius, Breviarium ( Abridgement of Roman History ) |
Ezek | | Ezekiel, Book of, Bible |
Fest | | Festus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani * ( Summary of Roman History ) |
Flor | | Florus, Publius Annaeus, Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC Libri II * ( Epitome of Livy’s Histories ) |
Her | | Herodotus, The Histories |
Hom Il | | Homer, Iliad |
Hom Od | | Homer, Odyssey |
Hor Car | | Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina ( Odes ) |
Hor Ep | | Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), *Epodon Liber ( Epodes ) |
Hor Epist | | Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistulae ( Epistles ) |
Hor Sat | | Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Sermones ( Satires ) |
ILS | | Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae |
Jer | | Jeremiah, Book of, Bible |
Livy | | Livy (Titus Livius), Ab urbe condita (From the Foundation of the City) |
Macr | | Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius, Saturnalia |
Oros | | Orosius, Paulus, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII ( Seven Books of History Against the Pagans ) |
Paus | | Pausanias, Description of Greece |
Pet | | Petronius, Gaius, Satyricon |
Pind | | Pindar, Nemean Odes |
Plaut Capt | | Plautus, Titus Maccius, Captivi ( The Captives ) |
Plaut Curc | | Plautus, Titus Maccius, Curculio ( The Weevil ) |
Plaut Poen | | Plautus, Titus Maccius, Poenulus ( The Little Carthaginian ) |
Plin Nat Hist | | Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia ( Natural History ) |
Plut Alex | | Plutarch, Life of Alexander |
Plut Cat Maj | | Plutarch, Life of Cato the Elder |
Plut Cor | | Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus |
Plut Fab | | Plutarch, Life of Fabius Maximus |
Plut Flam | | Plutarch, Life of Flamininus |
Plut G Grac | | Plutarch, Life of Gaius Gracchus |
Plut Mar | | Plutarch, Life of Marius |
Plut Marc | | Plutarch, Life of Marcellus |
Plut Mor | | Plutarch Moralia |
Plut Pom | | Plutarch, Life of Pompey |
Plut Popl | | Plutarch, Life of Poplicola |
Plut Pyr | | Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus |
Plut Rom | | Plutarch, Life of Romulus |
Plut Sul | | Plutarch, Life of Sulla |
Plut Tib Grac | | Plutarch, Life of Tiberius Gracchus |
Polyb | | Polybius, The Histories |
Prop | | Propertius, Sextus Aurelius, Carmina |
Sall | | Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Bellum Iugurthinum ( War Against Jugurtha ) |
Sall Hist | | Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Histories |
Strabo | | Strabo, Geographica ( The Geography ) |
Suet Caes | | Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranqillus), Life of Julius Caesar |
Suet Tib | | Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranqillus), Life of Tiberius ( de vita Caesarum, The Twelve Caesars —lit., “On the Life of the Caesars”) |
Tac Hist | | Tacitus, Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius, Historiae ( Histories ) |
Ter Ad | | Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi ( The Brothers ) |
Ter Hec | | Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Hecyra ( The Mother-in-Law ) |
Theo | | Theophrastus, De Causis Plantarum ( On the Origins of Plants ) |
Val Max | | Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ( Memorable Acts and Sayings ) |
Var Ling Lat | | Varro, Marcus Terentius, De lingua Latina |
Var Rust | | Varro, Marcus Terentius, De re rustica |
Virg Aen | | Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Aeneid |
Virg Geo | | Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Georgica ( Georgics ) |
Zon | | Zonaras, John, Extracts of History (Cassius Dio epitomes) |