Collected Papers on Latin Literature

a delight to read. Nisbet is challenging, witty, honest, gifted in metaphor, and commands an extraordinarily persuasive mathod and style of argument. His mastery of the Latin language is exhilerating to watch, rather than depressingly intimidating, as it can be in other scholars. Anyone who reads this book from beginning to end will come out knowing a lot more Latin than they did going in.

• Notes on Horace Epistles I ; Review and Discussion of K. Muller (ed.), Petronii Arbitrii Satyricon and W. V. Clausen (ed.) A. Persi Flacci et S. Iuni Iuvenalis Saturae; Felicitas at Surrentum (Statius Silvae 11.2) ; Virgil's Fourth Eclogue: Easterners and Westerners ; Notes on the Text of Catullus ; Elegiacs by Gallus from Qasr Ibrim ; Aeneas Imperator: Roman Generalship in an Epic Context ; Sidere Clarior (Horace, Carm. 3.1.42) ; 'Great and Lesser Bear' (Ovid, Tristia 4.3) ; Horace's Epodes and History ; Sacrilege in Egypt (Lucan IX. 150-161) ; Review of D. R. Shackleton Bailey (ed.) Q. Horatii Flacci Opera ; The Oak and the Axe: Symbolism in Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1618 ff. ; Pyrrha among Roses: Real Life and Poetic Imagination in Augustan Rome ; Notes on the Text and Interpretation of Juvenal ; Footnotes on Horace ; On Housman's Juvenal ; The Dating of Seneca's Tragedies, with special reference to Thyestes ; Cola and Clausulae in Cicero's Speeches ; The Style of Virgil's Eclogues ; How Textual Conjectures are Made ; The Orator and the Reader: Manipulation and Response in Cicero's Fifth Verrine ; Adolescens Puer (Virgil, Eclogues 4. 28-30) ; Four Conjectures on Catullus LXIV ; The Survivors: Old Style Literary Men in the Triumviral Period ; Tying Down Proteus; the Limitations of Ambiguity and Cross-reference in Horace's Odes