Licinia’nus (age of the Antonines): a history of republican Rome; style affected.
Marcus Aurelius, the emperor (161-180): a devoted Stoic; his “Meditations” (in Greek) full of noble sentiments.
Papinian and Ulpian, the jurists (about 200): writers on law.
Spartia’nus (300): “Biographies of the Roman Emperors.”
Ælius Dona’tus (4th century): the preceptor of St. Jerome; his “Art of Grammar” once a popular text-book.
Prudentius Cle’mens (4th century): a Christian poet; hymns, etc.
Avie’nus (4th century): poems on astronomical and geographical subjects.
Ammia’nus Marcelli’nus (died about 400): the last Latin historian; his “Thirty-one Books of Events,” a continuation of the history of Tacitus through the reign of Valens (378).
Symmachus (400): a high-minded opponent of Christianity; defeated by Ambrose in an attempt to restore the altar of Victory; orations, epistles.
Rutilius (5th century): poetical diary of a journey from Rome to Gaul; style terse and elegant.