Marcus Tullius Cicero

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1. Marcus Tullius Cicero

   Author of On the Good Life, The Nature of the Gods, On Government (Penguin Classics)

2. Charles William Eliot

   Author of The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato; The Golden sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare, Sacred Writings, Volume I: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian (Part I)

3. Livius

   Author of The Early History of Rome : Books I-V of the History of Rome from its Foundation (Penguin Classics), Ab urbe condita, libri XXI-XXX, History of Rome, books 6-10

4. Plutarch

   Author of The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics, L286), Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demostheses and Cicero,Cæsar and Antony

5. Aristotle

   Author of Nicomachean Ethics, The Politics, On Man in the Universe (Classics Club)

6. Seneca the Younger

   Author of On the shortness of life, Letters from a Stoic, Moral essays, Vol. I

7. Tacitus

   Author of The Annals, The Agricola and Germania, The Histories

8. Plato

   Author of Gorgias, The Laws, Philebus

9. Virgil

   Author of The Aeneid, The Eclogues, Virgil, I, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6, Revised Edition (Loeb Classical Library)

10. Plautus

    Author of The Pot of Gold and Other Plays, Comedies, Rudens (Latin edition)

11. Ovid

    Author of Fasti, Heroides, Metamorphoses 6-10

12. Cassius Dio

    Author of The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, Roman History, Roman History

13. Pliny the Elder

    Author of Natural History: A Selection (Penguin Classics), Pliny: Natural History, Volume I, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library No. 330), Pliny: Natural History, Volume VIII, Books 28-32. Index of Fishes. (Loeb Classical Library No. 418)

14. Saint Augustine

    Author of Confessions, Vol. 2: Books 9-13 (Loeb Classical Library, No. 27), Augustine: City of God, Volume II, Books 4-7 (Loeb Classical Library No. 412), Augustine: City of God, Volume III, Books 8-11 (Loeb Classical Library No. 413)

15. Diodorus Siculus

    Author of Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume I, Books 1-2.34, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume VII, Books 15.20-16.65, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History, Volume XII, Fragments of Books 33-40

16. Xenophon

    Author of Socrates' defence, Memoirs of Socrates, The dinner-party, The estate manager, Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, Apology (Loeb Classical Library, No. 168), Hellenica, books 5-7

17. Demosthenes

    Author of Demosthenes: I Olynthiacs, Philippics Minor Public Orations I-XVII and XX (Loeb Classical Library No. 238), Demosthenes: Against Meidias. Against Androtion. Against Aristocrates. Against Timocrates. Against Aristogeiton 1 and 2 (21-26). (Loeb Classical Library No. 299), The Olynthiacs of Demosthenes

18. Lucretius

    Author of On the Nature of the Universe, Sensation and Sex, On the Nature of Things, Book III

19. Sallust

    Author of The Conspiracy of Catiline, Sallust (Loeb Classical Library No. 116), Catilina; Iugurtha; Historiarum Fragmenta Selecta; Appendix Sallustiana (Oxford Classical Texts) (Oxford Classical Texts

20. Julius Caesar

    Author of Commentaries on the Gallic War, The Civil War, De Bello Alexandrino; De Bello Africo; De Bello Hispaniensi