Primary Text by Authors

This sub-section is being constructed. In the future, the list will be expanded from one page. The reason why I am doing this is because while Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum seeks to create a digital library of the entire body of Latin literature, it is not there yet. Moreover, a lot of Roman historians wrote in Greek.

Below is a list of the more common primary texts, at least as far as I am concerned. For now, I will put up only a couple of translations if available.

For more, please use Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum for Latin texts and Library of Ancient Texts Online for Greek texts.

Appian

• The Civil Wars. ed. L. Mendelssohn. (Greek)
• The Civil Wars (English) – 5 books. [Note: You can use the icons in the pink box on the top of the page to go to the previous or next page.]
• The Foreign Wars. ed. L. Mendelssohn. (Greek)
• The Foreign Wars. ed. Horace White. (English)

• The Res Gestae or Monumentum Ancyranum (Latin, Greek, English)

Julius Caesar

• Commentaries on the Civil War. ed. William Duncan. (English)
• De Bello Civili. (Latin)
• De bello Gallico. (Latin)
• Gallic War. (English) (Caes. Gal.)

Cicero

Ever wish Cicero had written less? Please refer to CSL.

Cassius Dio

• Roman History (English).

Horace

• The Art of Poetry: To the Pisos. ed. C. Smart. (English) (Hor. Ars)
• Carmina. ed. Paul Shorey, Gordon Lang. (Latin) (Hor. Carm.)
• De Arte Poetica liber. (Latin) (Hor. Ars)
• Odes. ed. John Conington. (English)
• Satyrarum libri. (Latin)
• The Works of Horace. ed. C. Smart. (English) (Hor. S.)

Livy

History	Volumes
Early history	1-5
Conquest of Italy	6-15
Wars against Carthage	16-30
Wars in the eastern Mediterranean	31-45
Destruction of Greece and Carthage	46-55
The Gracchi, Marius, Cinna, and Sulla	56-90
Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar	91-105
Caesar becomes sole ruler	106-115
War of Mutina	116-120
Wars of the triumvirs and fall of Marc Antony	121-133
Reign of Augustus	134-142
Periochae

• From the Latin Library.
  

• English translation from Livius - Articles on ancient history:
  • The Histories of Rome from Everyman's Library
  • Periochae

• English translation from U. of Virginia:
  • Volume I [Books 1-5]
  • Volume II [Books 6-10]
  • Volume III [Books 21-25]
  • Volume IV [Books 26-32]
  • Volume V [Books 33-39
  • Volume VI [Books 40-45]

Nicolaus of Damascus

• Life of Augustus

Ovid
Another of those whiny ones

• Please refer to CSL.

Pliny the Elder

• Natural History (Latin only)
• Natural History

Pliny the Younger
[Poor Trajan…]

• Selected Letters, General (110 letters), and Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan (122 letters).
• Letters, Book X. 25ff: The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan
• Letters from VROMA.

Plutarch

Please see LacusCurtius.

Polybius

• The Histories [English]
• Histories. (Greek)

Sallust

• The Catilinarian Conspiracy. (Latin) (Sal. Cat.)
• Consipiracy of Catiline. ed. John Selby Watson. (English) (Sal. Cat.)
• The Jugurthine War. (Latin) (Sal. Jug.)
• The Jugurthine War. ed. John Selby Watson. (English) (Sal. Jug.)

Suetonius

• The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Tacitus

• The Annals. (English)
• Annales. (Latin)
• The History. (English)
• Historiae. (Latin)
• Agricola
• A Dialogue on Oratory
• Germany and its Tribes

Velleius Paterculus

• Velleius Paterculus: History of Rome (Latin, English)

Vergil

• Please see CSL.

Updated in part on 13th Sep, 2005