Readings from Latin Verse; With Notes

Produced by Michael Gray, alumnus, Santa Clara University
Classics Department
Boston ALLYN AND BACON 1908
THIS little book has been prepared to meet the needs of my own classes. The selections have been made primarily with reference to their literary merit, but also with the intention of introducing the student to a number of authors not usually read in the earlier portion of the college course.
The notes are greatly indebted to the works named under the heading, 'Reference.'
I am under obligations to Professor E. C. Morris of Syracuse University for the correction of the manuscript of the notes, and to Mr. N. L. Willey, Syracuse University, 1908, for assistance in proof-reading. C. C. B. SYRACUSE, N.Y.
1. The Lament for Romulus.
Pectora fida tenet desiderium: simul inter sese sic memorant, 'o Romule, Romule die, qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! O pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum, tu produxisti nos intra luminis oras.' 5
2. Pyrrhus dismissing the Prisoners without Ransom.
Nec mi aurum posco nec mi pretium dederitis: nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes ferro, non auro, vitam cernamus utrique. Vosne velit an me regnare era quidve ferat Fors virtute experiamur. Et hoc simul accipe dictum: 5 quorum virtuti belli fortuna pepercit eorundem libertati me parcere certumst. Dono ducite doque volentibus cum magnis dis.
3. M.' Curius.
Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro.