A HISTORY OF GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE. BY REV. A. LOUAGE, C. S. C., PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT CLASSICAL LITERATURE AT NOTRE-DAME NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 AND 551 BROADWAY. 1873. HARVARD COLLEG NOV 28 1923 LIBRARY Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, BY D. APPLETON & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. HAVING to teach the class of ancient literature at the University of Notre-Dame, I in vain looked for a text-book for my pupils and for myself, and could not find any thing which would answer either my purpose, or the programme, such as I had conceived it. I found, among the books composing the classical department of the library, two volumes, in octavo, by R. W. Browne, on Greek and Roman classical literature. This work, which is deserving of much praise, was too extensive, and not systematic enough, in order to be given as a text-book. The "Classical Dictionary" of Anthon, and the one of Lempriere, both works of much erudition, would not answer my purpose either. I then set to work, and, taking the divisions of Browne, I collected information from the three writers named above, and also from some bibliographical articles found at the head of some editions of classical books, accepted as text-books in all the colleges of this country, and composed the present compendium, which I |