Chapter IV The Elegiac Poets — Gratius — Manilius
Roman elegy—Cornelius Callus—Domitius Marsus—Tibullus—Propertius— Ovid—His life—The Art of Love—His exile—Doubtful and spurious poems —Lesser erotic and epic poets—Gratius—Manilius.
Chapter V Prose Writers of the Augustan Age
Oratory Neglected—Declamation takes its place—Porcius Latro—Annaeus Seneca—History—Livy—Opportune appearance of his work—Criticism of his method—Pompeius Trogus—Vitruvius—Grammarians—Fenestella—Verrius Flaccus—Hyginus—Law and philosophy.
APPENDIX.—Note I. A Suasoria translated from Seneca,
" II. Some Observations on the Theory of Rhetoric, from
Quintilian, Book III.