Category Archives: Minor Latin Prose

Velleius Paterculus, ‘Scipio destroys Carthage’ (contributed by Terry Walsh)

Velleius’ history is an epitome, or summary, and necessarily clipped at times, but it has an unpretentious and sonorous simplicity. The apparently clumsy contrast here is between the qualities of […]

September 18, 2013 – 10:35 am | By Steve Jenkin | Posted in Minor Latin Prose | Comments (0)