150)
Hellados Periêgêsis
(
Descriptio Graeciae
)
Pers. – Persius (Roman satirist, A.D. 34–62)
Saturae
Pind. – Pindar (Greek lyric poet,
c
. 520–c. 440 B.C. )
Nem. – Nemean Odes
Plat. – Plato (Greek philosopher,
c
. 427–348 B.C. )
Apol. – Apologia Socratis
Crat. – Cratylus
Legg. – Leges
Phaed. – Phaedo
Phaedr. – Phaedrus
Prot. – Protagoras
Rp. – De Republica
Symp. – Symposium
Tim. – Timaeus
Plaut. – Plautus (Roman comic playwright,
c
. 254–184 B.C. )
Amph. – Amphitruo
Plin. – Pliny the Elder (Roman natural historian, A.D. 23–79)
Naturalis Historia
Plot. – Plotinus (Neoplatonist philosopher, A.D. 205–270)
Enn. – Enneadcs
Plut. – Plutarch (Greek biographer and essayist,
c
. A.D. 46–c. 120)
Ages. – Vitae Parallelae, Agesilaus
Alex. – Vitae Parallelae, Alexander
Caes. – Vitae Parallelae, Julius Caesar
C. Gracch. – Vitae Parallelae, Caius Gracchus
Cat. – Vitae Parallelae, Cato
De Fort. Rom. – De Fortuna Romanorum
Num. – Vitae Parallelae, Numa
Quaest. Rom. – Quaestiones Romanae
Pyrrh. – Vitae Parallelae, Pyrrhus
Sull. – Vitae Parallelae, Sulla
Sall. – Sallust (Roman historian, 86–35 B.C. )
Cat. –
Catilina
(Bellum Catilinae)
Hist. – Historiae Fragmenta
Iug. – Jugurtha
(
Bellum Iugurthinum
)
Sen. – Seneca (Roman essayist c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
Contr. – Controversiae
De Clem. – Dialogas de Clementia
De Ira – Dialogus de Ira
Ep. – Epistulae
Socr. – Socrates (Greek Church historian,
c
. A.D. 380–450)
Historia Ecclesiastica
Soph. – Sophocles (Greek dramatist, 496–406 B.C. ).
Oed. Tyr. – Oedipus Tyrannus
Strab. – Strabo (Greek geographer,
c
. 64 B.C. – A.D. 10)
Geographica
Suet. – Suetonius (Roman biographer,
c
. A.D. 70–c. 160)
De Vita Caesarum
Tac. – Tacitus (Roman historian,
c
. A.D. 55–c. 115)
Hist. – Historiae
Ter. – Terence (Roman comic playwright,
c
. 195–159 B.C. )
Ad. – Adelphi
Andr. – Andria
Eun. – Eunuchus
Terentian. – Terentianus Mauras (Latin grammarian and metrist, late second century A.D. )
De Metr. – De Litteris Syllabis et Metris Horatii
Tert. – Tertullian (African Church Father,
c
. A.D. 160–c. 220)
Ad Nat. – Ad Nationes
Ap. – Apologia
De Res. Mort. – De Resurrectione Mortuorum
De Spect. – De Spectaculis
Thdt. – Theodoret (bishop, theologian, and historian,
c
. A.D. 393–c. 458)
H.E. – Historia Ecclesiastica
Val. Max. – Valerius Maximus (Latin anecdotist,
fl
.
c
. A.D. 30)
Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium Libri IX
Varro (Roman polymath, 116–27 B.C. )
De Ling. Lat. – De Lingua Latina
De Re Rust. – De Re Rustica
Velleius Paterculus (Roman historian,
fl
.
c
. A.D. 20)
Historiae Romanae
Virg. – Virgil (Roman epic, bucolic and didactic poet, 70–19 B.C. )
Aen. – Aeneid
Eel. – Eclogae
Georg. – Georgica
Facsimile of the title page of the Ludovic Vives edition, 1522, of the City of God
(
The British Museum catalogue notes that the date in the colophon is misprinted MDXII
)
IO FROBENIVS
LECTORI S. D .
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