Minucius Felix--Tertullian--Cyprian--Arnobius--
Lactantius--Commodianus
VII. THE FOURTH CENTURY.
Papinian and Ulpian--Sammonicus--Nemesianus--
Tiberianus--The Augustan History--Ausonius--Claudian
--Prudentius--Ammianus Marcellinus
VIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
The End of the Ancient World--The Four Periods of
Latin Literature--The Empire and the Church

INDEX OF AUTHORS.





I.

THE REPUBLIC.




I.

ORIGINS OF LATIN LITERATURE: EARLY EPIC AND TRAGEDY.


To the Romans themselves, as they looked back two hundred years later,
the beginnings of a real literature seemed definitely fixed in the