Martial

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1. Livius

   Author of History of Rome, books 3-4, History of Rome, books 31-34, History of Rome, books 43-45

2. Horace

   Author of Epodes and Odes, The Satires of Horace and Persius (Penguin Classics), The Satires

3. Martial

   Author of Epigrams, Epigrams, Volume I: Spectacles, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library), Martial: Epigrams, Volume III, Books 11-14. (Loeb Classical Library No. 480)

4. Virgil

   Author of The Eclogues, Opera, Bucolics and Georgics

5. Ovid

   Author of Fasti, Metamorphoses 6-10, Ovid in English

6. Juvenal

   Author of The Satires of Juvenal, Juvenal and Persius, A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuni Iuuenalis Saturae

7. Julius Caesar

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

8. Catullus

   Author of The Poems of Catullus, Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library No. 6), Catullus in English

9. Petronius Arbiter.

   Author of The Satyricon, The Satyricon & The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, Cena Trimalchionis

10. Plutarch

    Author of Essays (Penguin Classics), Plutarch Lives, VI: Dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus (Loeb Classical Library®), Plutarch: Moralia, Volume VIII, Table-talk, Books 1-6 (Loeb Classical Library No. 424)

11. Terence

    Author of The Comedies, Comoediae : Andria, Heauton Timorumenos, Eunuchus, Phormio, Hecyra, Adelphoe, Adelphoe

12. Aulus Gellius

    Author of Attic nights, books 1-5, Attic nights, books 14-20, Attic nights, books 6-13

13. Sallust

    Author of The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Catiline, The Conspiracy of Catiline

14. Tacitus

    Author of The Annals, The Histories, Tacitus: Histories Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

15. Seneca the Younger

    Author of Volume VIII. Tragedies: Hercules Furens. Troades. Medea. Hippolytus or Phaedra. Oedipus (Loeb Classical Library), Seneca in English, Seneca: De otio; De brevitate vitae (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

16. Marcus Tullius Cicero

    Author of Cicero: Selected Letters (Penguin Classics), Cicero: In Catilinam 1-4. Pro Murena. Pro Sulla. Pro Flacco: B. Orations (Loeb Classical Library No. 324), Cicero: The Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part I; Part II, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library No

17. Cassius Dio

    Author of Roman History, Roman History

18. Lucian

    Author of Lucian: Volume III (Loeb Classical Library 130), Lucian: Volume VIII (Loeb Classical Library 432)

19. Julian the Apostate

    Author of The Works of the Emperor Julian, Volume III, The Works of the Emperor Julian, Volume I, The Works of the Emperor Julian, Volume II

20. Lucretius

    Author of On the Nature of the Universe, De Rerum Natura: Libri Sex, On the Nature of Things, Book III