The History of Roman Literature Part 36

20 First book of Epistles.

19 Virgil dies at Brundisium. His epitaph:

"Mantua me genuit: Calabri rapuere: tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua rura duces."

Tibullus dies. Domitius Marsus writes.

18 Livy working at his fifty-ninth book.

17 Porcius Latro. The _Carmen Saeculare_. Varius and Tucca edit the Aeneid.

16 Aemilius Macer of Verona dies. Od. iv. 9, to Lollius.

15 Death of Propertius. Victories of Drusus. Od. iv. 4.

14 The fourth book of the Odes(?).

13 Cestius of Smyrna teaches rhetoric.

12 Death of Agrippa.

11 The Epistle to Augustus (Ep. ii. 1).

10 Pa.s.sienus and Hyginus Polyhistor.

9 Ovid's _Amores_.

8 Death of Horace.

7 Birth of Seneca (?).

6 Albucius Silo a professor of rhetoric.

5 Tiro, Cicero's freedman, dies (aet. 100).

4 Porcius Latro commits suicide. Ovid now in his fortieth year.

2 Ovid's _Art of Love_.

A.D.

1 The _Remedium Amoris_.

2 Velleius Paterculus serves under C. Caesar.

4 Pollio dies. Velleius serves with Tiberius in Germany.

7 Velleius quaestor.

8 Verrius Flaccus, the grammarian, flourished. Ovid banished to Tomi, in December (Tr. 1, 10, 3).

"_Aut hanc me gelidi tremerem c.u.m mense Decembris Scribentem mediis Adria vidita quis._"

9 The _Ibis_ of Ovid.

11 Death of Messala. [6]

12 The _Tristia_ finished.

13 The Epistles from Pontus were being written.

14 Death of Augustus. Velleius praetor.

18 Death of Ovid at 60; of Livy at 76. Valerius Maximus accompanied s.e.x.

Pompeius to Asia.

19 The elder Seneca writes his "recollections."

24 Ca.s.sius Severus in exile. Pliny the elder born (?).

25 Death of Cremutius Cordus. Votienus banished.

26 Haterius flourished.

30 Asinius Gallus imprisoned.

31 Valerius Maximus wrote ix. 11, 4 (_extern._), soon after the death of Seja.n.u.s.

33 Death of Ca.s.sius Severus the orator. His works proscribed. Death of Asinius Gallus.

34 Persius born.

40 Lucan brought to Rome.

41 Seneca's _de Ira_. Exile of Seneca at the close of this year.

42 Asconius Pedia.n.u.s flourished.

43 Martial born.

45 Domitius Afer flourished.

48 Remmius Palaemon in vogue as a grammarian.

49 Seneca recalled from exile, and made Nero's tutor.

56 Seneca's _de Clementia_.

57 Probus Berytius a celebrated grammarian.

59 Death of Domitius Afer.

61 Pliny the younger born (?).

62 Death of Persius. Seneca in danger, Burrus being dead.

63 The _Naturales Quaestiones_ of Seneca.

65 Death of Seneca (_Ann._ xv. 60).

66 Martial comes to Rome.

68 Quintilian accompanies Galba to Rome. Silius Italicus consul.

69 Silius in Rome.

75 The dialogue _de Oratoribus_, written (C. 17).

77 Pliny's _Natural History_. Gabinia.n.u.s, the rhetorician, flourished.

79 Death of the elder Pliny.

80 Pliny the younger begins to plead.

88 Suetonius now a young man, Tacitus praetor.

89 Quintilian teaches at Rome. His professional career extends over 20 years.

90 Philosophers banished. Pliny praetor. _Sulpiciae Satira_ (if genuine).

95 Statii Silv. iv. 1. The _Thebaid_ was nearly finished.

96 Pliny's accusation of Publicius Certus.

97 Frontinus curator aquarum. Tacitus consul suffectus.

98 Trajan.

99 The tenth book of Martial. Silius at Naples.

100 Pliny and Tacitus accuse Marius Priscus. Pliny's panegyric.

103 Pliny at his province of Bithynia.

104 His letter about the Christians. Martial goes to Bilbilis.

109 Pliny (aet. 48) at the zenith of his fame.

118 Juvenal wrote Satire xiii. this year.

132 Salvius Julia.n.u.s's Perpetual Edict.

138 Death of Hadrian.

143 Fronto consul suffectus.

164 Height of Fronto's fame.

166 Fronto proposes to describe the Parthian war.

180 Death of Marcus Aurelius.

A large number of other dates will be found in the body of the work, especially for the later period; but as they are not absolutely certain, they have not been inserted here.

LIST OF EDITIONS RECOMMENDED. [7]

FOR THE EARLY PERIOD.

WORDSWORTH. Fragments and Specimens of early Latin. 1874.

LIVIUS ANDRONICUS. H. Duntzer. Berlin. 1835.