also an elegiac poet, and
wrote mostly on love.

OVID (43 B.C.--18 A.D.)

PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO left three books of _Amores_; one of _Heroides_;
the _Ars Amatoria_; _Remedia Amoris_; the _Metamorphoses_ (fifteen
books); the _Tristia_; and the _Fasti_. (See page 181.)

LIVY (59 B.C.--17 A.D.).

TITUS LIVIUS left a history of Rome, of which thirty-five books have
been preserved. (See page 181.)

PHAEDRUS.

PHAEDRUS, a writer of fables, flourished in the reign of Tiberius
(14-37). He was originally a slave. His fables are ninety-seven in
number, and are written in iambic verse.

SENECA (8 B.C.--65 A.D.)

For an account of this writer see the chapter on the Emperor Nero, page
189.

CURTIUS.

QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS was a historian who lived in the reign of Claudius
(50 A.D.). He wrote a history of the exploits of Alexander the Great.

PERSIUS (34-62).

PERSIUS, a poet of the reign of Nero, was a native of Volaterrae. He
wrote six satires, which are obscure and hard to understand.

LUCAN (39-65).

LUCAN, a nephew of Seneca, wrote an epic poem (not finished) called
_Pharsalia_, upon the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.

PLINY THE ELDER (23-79).

GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS, of Northern Italy, was a great scholar in
history, grammar, rhetoric, and natural science. His work on _Natural
History_ has come down to us.

STATIUS, MARTIAL, QUINTILIAN, JUVENAL. STATIUS (45-96), a native of
Naples, had considerable poetical talent. He wrote the _Thebaid_, the
_Achilleis_ (unfinished), and the _Silvae_.

MARTIAL (42-102), wrote sharp and witty epigrams, of which fifteen books
are extant. He was a native of Spain.

QUINTILIAN (35-95), was also a native of Spain. He was a teacher of
eloquence for many years in Rome. His work _On the Training of an
Orator_, is preserved.

JUVENAL(47-130), of Aquinum, was a great satirist, who described and
attacked bitterly the vices of Roman society. Sixteen of his satires are
still in existence.

TACITUS (54-119). CORNELIUS TACITUS was the great historian of his age.
His birthplace is unknown. His writings are interesting and of a high
tone, but often tinged with prejudice, and hence unfair. He wrote,--

1. A dialogue on orators. 2. A biography of his father-in-law, Agricola.
3. A description of the habits of the people of Germany. 4. A history of
the reigns of Galba, Otho, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (_Historiae_).
5. _Annales_, a narrative of the events o