CHAPTER XI.
Other kinds of Prose Literature: Grammar, Rhetoric, and Philosophy (147-63 B.C.).
Legal writers—P. Mucius Scaevola—Q. Mucius Scaevola—Rhetoric—
Plotius Gallus—Cornificius—Grammatical science—Aelius Stilo—
Philosophy—Amafinius—Rabirius—Relation of philosophy to
religion.
BOOK II.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
FROM THE CONSULSHIP OF CICERO TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS (63 B.C.-l4 A.D.).
PART I.
THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD.
CHAPTER I.
Varro.
The two Divisions of this culminating period—Classical authors—Varro
—His life, his character, his encyclopaedic mind—His Menippean
Satires—Logistorici-Antiquities Divine and Human—Imagines—De
Lingua Latina—De Re Rustica.