The hundred best poems (lyrical) in the Latin language

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HUNDRED EST POEMS

IN THE LATIN LANGUAGE

Professor in Poetta in the Universit ord

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A ELECTio of the hundred best Latin Lyric is a book the content of hicli must ar largely, Otoni accordindito individual aste, ut accordin tolli limits illi in hich the poenas are chOSen, and the ange hicli the ter lyrica poetr is ahen tocouer. It will e sum cient here to explain in a fe word the choice made in the following

The ieces have been ahe wholi fro ancientor classica Latin The mediaeva lyrics, thoughwritie at a time hen Latino a stili a livinglangvage, are thus Xcluded together illi many othersi authors of the earlier and later Renaissance hos Wor is a genuine an a beautila a that of the classica decadence. ut the classica periodlias been extende to admit a se eXamples of

poenas hicli reatly long to the eginning of the

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Middie Ages. The cope of the selectio excludes the whole od o Christia poetry hicli egins with the hymns of St. Ambrose But ne iece byPrudentius is included interestin both rom iis own simple grace, and a Ming, perhaps, the ni passage in that coplous author's ork written ithout nyeXpres religious allusion, and in the ancient classicalmanner. The Africa schoo of the fourth centurywhicli did o much to transformali ancient langu ageis represente by Tiberianus, and probabi by theunknown writer of the te of St. Venus. Some of the lyric froni Boethius Consolation os Philosophγfind a natura place among the producis os a literaryculture hicli remat ne an inheritance of the Anicia hous long after it ad ted ut of the

It has been the fate of Latin lyric poetr to berepresente to modern times, roadi speahing, by the work of nly two poets, Catullus an Horace. An lyri antholog must raru pon them for iis main contenis and indeed, it might e plausiblyargued that The Hundred est Lyrica Poems would rule ut any or but theirs for there is a

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includex fore room ere made for thos of others. Even in a more idet representative Selection,

it ill surpris no ne to in that Horace contributes hal of the hundred poems, an Catullus,fro his tendere volume, hal of the remainder. The definition o a lyric ma reasonabi heeXtende to ove the passages ahen frona Virgil's Eclogues, in hich the idyllic anne rises to alligher tensio an possesses at east ne of the notes of the lyric proper The Same laim ibe ad for the beaut ut iece v Statius, in icti e perhaps came earer his master' touchthan e id in his scholari an rather edicus epics. Similarly the litile elegia pieces given DomSeneca, Petronius, Claudian, an Pentadius, thoughunde a strici classification the would count sepigrams have, lihe many of the Gree epigram in the Anthology, omething of a lyrica quality. word a be adde a regares tot and spelling. The textris o unde chieri o that of the standar modern editions for deviations romwhicli thes Editor must held responsible In

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the case of the Pervigilium Veneris a hollyrearrange and larget altere texi has been printed A this is no a critica edition it oesno indicate readings hicli are restorations orconjectures Scholars ill no require an such indications, an to ordinar reader the wouldbe a mere incumbrance.

There is as et o universali recognised systemo Latin spelling. That adopted here is meant tocombine a much a possibi of the three standards, authority, uniformity, and convenience Thesestandard are osten conflicting. Frona ne age toanother the recognised system o spelling id notremat uniform, an even a the est period there was much variet os individua choice or caprice. Worhin compromise is ali that canae arrived also generat Se . One Oint in spellin is however, o prominentas to demand a specia note . In the illes, thenames of author in the genitive case re printed

Vergilii Statii, Prudentit no Vergili, Stati Prudenti. There is, of course, o do ubi that Vergili and Horati ere the form ordinarii used in the est

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period It is quali certain that the orna in iialmost holi replace that in i during the first centur of the Empire. At the righ, asae telis me, of bein affectedi archaic the accomptished Editor

of the ne Corpus Poetarum Latinorum determined, in the interest os a uniform an setile practice, toprint the earlier for throughout A the ris of being old-fashioned, I have, in the fame interest, chosen the later. But it a b observed in supportos his choice, that the remarhable researches OfProfessor ielinsh seem to prove that, even in the Ciceronian age an in Cicero' own practice, both

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INDEX CARMINUM.

DE AMORE

1. Catulli, Carm. v.

2. Catulli, Carm. i. 3. Catulli, Carna lxii. . Catulli, Carm. XXX vii.

s. Catulli, Carm. xii. 6. Catulli, Carm. XCii. 7. Catulli, Carm. ci X. 8. Petronii, in Anth. Lat. ciX. 9. Horatii, Od. I. v. IO. Catulli, Carm. IXX.

II. Pentadii, et Anth. Lat. cccc XXV.

I 2. Horatii, Od. II. viii. 13. Vergilii, Bucol. viii. V v. 17-6 I. I . Catulli, Carm. lxxii. is Catulli, Carm. IXXX v. i 6. Catulli, Carm. lxxiii.i7. Catulli, Carm. t XX v. 18. Catulli, Carm. i. I9. Catulli, Carm. XX vi. ao Vergilii, Bucol. viii. v v. 6 -IC9.21. Vergilii, Buco X., v. 9-69. 22. Horatii, Od. IV. i.

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23. Horatii, Od. III. XXvi. et . Prudentii, Cathem. Praef., U. - 27. 23. Vergilii, Bucol. II., v. 6-72.

DE CONUBIO.

DE RELIGIONE.

28. Horatii, Od. III. xii. 29. Horatii, Od. I. XXX. 3O. Incerti Auctoris, Perti ilium Veneris. 31. Vergilii, Bucol. IV., v. -63. 32. Catulli, Carm. XXX iv. 33. Horatii, Od. I. XXX i. 3 . Horatii, Carmen seculare.

DE RE PUBLICA.

33. Horatii, Od. II. i. 36. Horatii, Od. II. v. 37. Horatii, Od. III. i. 38. Horatii, Od. III. iii. 39. Horatii, Od. III. v. O. Horatii, Od. IV. v.