A full study of Latin poetry before Augustus by the Edinburgh professor of Latin. Sellar begins with the character of Roman poetry and the traces of native Italian verse, then treats Livius Andronicus, Naevius and Ennius, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the satires of Lucilius, and the great poets of the late Republic, Lucretius and Catullus.
A classic of Victorian classical scholarship, still valued for its sympathetic readings. Download the free EPUB.