Chapter XI
Other kinds of Prose Literature: Grammar, Rhetoric, and Philosophy (147-63 B.C.).
Legal writers—P. Mucius Scaevola—Q. Mucius Scaevola—Rhetoric— Plotius Gallus—Cornificius—Grammatical science—Aelius Stilo— Philosophy—Amafinius—Rabirius—Relation of philosophy to religion.
Book II
THE GOLDEN AGE. FROM THE CONSULSHIP OF CICERO TO THE DEATH OF AUGUSTUS (63 B.C.-l4 A.D.).
Part I — The Republican Period
Chapter I Varro
The two Divisions of this culminating period—Classical authors—Varro
—His life, his character, his encyclopaedic mind—His Menippean
Satires—Logistorici-Antiquities Divine and Human—Imagines—De
Lingua Latina—De Re Rustica.
APPENDIX.—Note I. The Menippean Satires of Varro,
" II. The Logistorici,
" III. Fragments of Atacinus,
" IV. The Jurists, Critics, and Grammarians of less note.