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## The Doomed Prince There once was a king to whom no son was born; and his heart was grieved, and he prayed for himself unto the gods around him for a child. They decreed that one should be born to him. And his wife, after her time was fulfilled, brought forth a son. Then came the Hathors to decr…

## The Peasant and the Workman There dwelt in the Sekhet Hemat--or salt country--a peasant called the Sekhti, with his wife and children, his asses and his dogs; and he trafficked in all good things of the Sekhet Hemat to Henenseten. Behold now he went with rushes, natron, and salt, with wood and…

THE SHIH KING OR BOOK OF POETRY: ALL THE PIECES AND STANZAS IN IT ILLUSTRATING THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND PRACTICES OF THE WRITERS AND THEIR TIMES. Translated by James Legge From the Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3…

## Chapter I 1 The treatise of Caecilius on the Sublime, when, as you remember, my dear Terentian, we examined it together, seemed to us to be beneath the dignity of the whole subject, to fail entirely in seizing the salient points, and to offer little profit (which should be the principal aim of e…

## Satire I Must I always be a hearer only? Shall I never retaliate,[33] though plagued so often with the Theseid of Codrus,[34] hoarse _with reciting it_? Shall one man, then, recite[35] to me his Comedies, and another his Elegies, with impunity? Shall huge "Telephus" waste a whole day for me, or…

## Carmina I-XIV — Early Poems **I.** Quoi dono lepidum novom libellum Arida modo pumice expolitum? Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas Meas esse aliquid putare nugas, Iam tum cum ausus es unus Italorum 5 Omne aevum tribus explicare chartis Doctis, Iuppiter,…

MEDEA CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY ## Creon Banishes Medea ## Medea Confronts Jason ## Aegeus — The Refuge MEDEA, *daughter of Aietes, King of Colchis*. JASON, _chief of the Argonauts; nephew of Pelias, King of Iolcos in Thessaly_. CREON, *ruler of Corinth*. AEGEUS,…

## Dramatis Personae THE GOD DIONYSUS XANTHIAS, *his slave* AESCHYLUS ## The Contest in Hades — Aeschylus vs Euripides EURIPIDES HERACLES PLUTO CHARON AEACUS, *house porter to Pluto* A CORPSE A MAIDSERVANT OF PERSEPHONE A LANDLADY IN HADES PLATHANE, *her servant* A CHORUS OF FROGS A CH…

## Dramatis Personae EUELPIDES PISTHETAERUS EPOPS (the Hoopoe) TROCHILUS, Servant to Epops PHOENICOPTERUS HERALDS A PRIEST A POET A PROPHET METON, a Geometrician A COMMISSIONER A DEALER IN DECREES IRIS A PARRICIDE CINESIAS,…

## Dramatis Personae Strepsiades Phidippides Servant of Strepsiades Disciples of Socrates Socrates Chorus of Clouds Just Cause Unjust Cause Pasias Amynias Witness Chaerephon ## Prologue — The Sleepless Debtor Scene: The interior of…

## Book I THE SORROWS OF BOETHIUS. SUMMARY. Boethius' complaint (Song I.).--CH. I. Philosophy appears to Boethius, drives away the Muses of Poetry, and herself laments (Song II.) the disordered condition of his mind.--CH. II. Boethius is speechless with amazement. Philoso…

## Book 1 How Apuleius riding in Thessaly, fortuned to fall into company with two strangers, that reasoned together of the mighty power of Witches. As I fortuned to take my voyage into Thessaly, about certaine affaires which I had to doe (for there myne auncestry by my mothers side inhabiteth, de…

## I. Julius Caesar I. Julius Caesar, the Divine [3], lost his father [4] when he was in the sixteenth year of his age [5]; and the year following, being nominated to the office of high-priest of Jupiter [6], he repudiated Cossutia, who was very wealthy, although her family belonged only to the eq…

THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO. _A NEW TRANSLATION._ =Edited by the= REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A.…

## Theseus As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so, in this work…

## Book I **Ode I.** TO MAECENAS. Maecenas, descended from royal ancestors, O both my protection and my darling honor! There are those whom it delights to have collected Olympic dust in the chariot race; and [whom] the goal nicely avoided by the glowing wheels, and the noble palm, exalts, lords of…

## Book I PROEM Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands--for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great su…

## Preface **1.** To bequeath to posterity a record of the deeds and characters of distinguished men is an ancient practice which even the present age, careless as it is of its own sons, has not abandoned whenever some great and conspicuous excellence has conquered and risen superior to that failin…

## Geography and Origins **I.** Germany as a whole is separated from the Galli, the Rhaeti, and Pannonii, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; mountain ranges, or the fear which each feels for the other, divide it from the Sarmatae and Daci. Elsewhere ocean girds it, embracing broad peninsulas and islan…

## Book 1 1. Rome at the beginning was ruled by kings. Freedom and the consulship were established by Lucius Brutus. Dictatorships were held for a temporary crisis. The power of the decemvirs did not last beyond two years, nor was the consular jurisdiction of the military tribunes of long duration…