TACITUS.
“Traitors are odious even to those whom they benefit.—When the state is most corrupt, the laws are most numerous.—There will be vices as long as there are men.—Everything unknown is magnified.—It is a peculiarity of the human mind to hate one whom you have injured.”
JUVENAL.
“Rare is the combination of beauty and modesty.—Nature never says one thing, and wisdom another.—Himself being the judge, no guilty man is acquitted.—The anger of the gods, however great it may be, yet certainly is slow.—Less frequent enjoyment of them makes pleasures keener.”
MINOR POETS AND PROSE WRITERS.
Cremu’tius Cordus, the historian: “Annals.” Cordus offended Tiberius by styling Cassius “the last of the Romans,” and starved himself to death to escape the tyrant.
Aufid’ius Bassus: histories of the civil and German wars.
Asco’nius Pedia’nus: a grammarian of Patavium; commentaries on Cicero’s orations.
Petro’nius Arbiter, the companion and victim of Nero: author of “Satyricon,” a witty romance, of which a few fragments remain.
Julius Fronti’nus: a self-made man of the Flavian era; works on the Roman aqueducts, military tactics, the measurement of land, etc.