A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 78. — Drinking-ciip with six masks. Silver, par-tially gilded. From the objects discovered atHildesheim. TACITUS, SUETONIUS, THE AFRICAN LATINITY 173 toriography reached its highest point. Caius Suetonius Tranquillus( 75-160), long a minister of Hadrian, filled his leisure with liter-ary work, after the manner of ^^arro. His collection of hiographies ofthe emperors from Caesar to Domitian, written in 120, is succinct,clear, and correct in statement, simple in language, but lacks politicalbrea
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 78. — Drinking-ciip with six masks. Silver, par-tially gilded. From the objects discovered atHildesheim. TACITUS, SUETONIUS, THE AFRICAN LATINITY 173 toriography reached its highest point. Caius Suetonius Tranquillus( 75-160), long a minister of Hadrian, filled his leisure with liter-ary work, after the manner of ^^arro. His collection of hiographies ofthe emperors from Caesar to Domitian, written in 120, is succinct,clear, and correct in statement, simple in language, but lacks politicalbreadth, psychological discrimination, and a high standard of Fi«. 79. — Vase of the Dea Roma. From the ubjects discovered at Ilildeslieim. (Berlin.) The historian Florus, who lived under Hadrian, wrote in a declamatorystyle an epitome of Roman history to the time of Augustus, which ismainly taken from Livy. After Hadrian, Roman prose begins to change. The grammarians,and the representatives of mere learning, and the African writers withtheir variations of Latin idiom (the African Latinity), marked by alocal and even Semitic character, became prominent. The juridical 174 THE ANCIENT WORLD IN THE SECOND CENTURY. writers, on the other hand, are the representatives of a purer taste inhterary form. The African, M. Cornelius Fronto, of Cirta ( 90 to 168), urgeda return to models like Plautus, Ennius, Cato, Gracchus, Lucretius,Sallust, and, usually with little judgment or taste, interspersed wordsand phrases from these old writers in his works, employing an involvedand artificial style. The best known of his many pupils is the renownedpedant, A
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