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BIBLIOGRAPHY the Abbreviations Are Those Currently Used in The BIBLIOGRAPHY The abbreviations are those currently used in the Année Philologique. Primary sources Aelius Aristides, Opera quae exstant omnia, Orationes I–XVI,eds.F.W.Lenz– C.A. Behr, Leiden 1976–1978. Appian, Historia Romana, eds. P. Viereck – A.G. Roos, Leipzig 1939. Apuleius, Pro se de magia (Apologia), ed. V. Hunink, Amsterdam 1997. Asconius Pedianus, Orationum quinque Ciceronis enarratio,inCiceronis orationum scholiastae, ed. T. Stangl, Vienna 1912. Pseudo-Asconius, in Ciceronis orationum scholiastae, ed. T. Stangl, Vienna 1912. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae,ed.G.Kaibel,Leipzig1887–1890. Augustine, De civitate dei, eds. B. Dombart – A. Kalb, Turnhout 1955. [Aurelius Victor] Liber de viris illustribus urbis Romae, ed. F. Pichlmayr, Leipzig 19662. Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili, ed. A. Klotz – W. Trillitzsch, Leipzig 19692. Cassiodorus, Chronicon,inChronica Minora, 2, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores Antiquissimi 11, ed. T. Mommsen, Berlin 1894. Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, ed. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge 1965–1970. ——— pro Balbo,ed.W.Peterson,Oxford19932. ——— Brutus,ed.A.S.Wilkins,Oxford1993. ——— pro Caecina, ed. A.C. Clark, Oxford 19932. ——— orationes in Catilinam quattuor,eds.H.Borneque–E.Bailly,Paris1961. ——— pro Cluentio, ed. P. Boyancé, Paris 1953. ——— de domo sua, ed. W. Peterson, Oxford 19932. ——— Epistulae ad familiares, ed. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge 1977. ——— pro L. Flacco, ed. A.C. Clark, Oxford 19932. ——— de Imperio Cn. Pompei, ed. A. Boulanger, Paris 1929. ——— de lege agraria, ed. A.C. Clark, Oxford 19932. ——— pro Murena, ed. A. Boulanger, Paris 1962. ——— de natura deorum,eds.O.Plasberg–W.Ax,Leipzig19872. ——— de officiis, ed. M. Winterbottom, Oxford 1994. ——— de oratore,ed.A.S.Wilkins,Oxford1993. ——— Paradoxa Stoicorum, ed. J. Molager, Paris 1964. ——— Philippicae, ed. A.C. Clark, Oxford 19932. ——— in Pisonem, ed. A.C. Clark, Oxford 19932. ——— pro P. Quinctio, ed. A.C. Clark, Oxford 19932. ——— epistulae ad Quintum fratrem et M. Brutum, ed. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge 1980. 234bibliography ——— pro Rabirio Postumo, ed. A. Boulanger, Paris 1949. ——— proRoscioAmerino, ed. A. Klotz, Leipzig 19492. ——— pro Sulla, ed. D.H. Berry, Cambridge 1996. ——— in Verrem, ed. W. Peterson, Oxford 19932. [Quintus Cicero] Commentariolum petitionis, ed. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Leipzig 1988. Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae, ed. H. Peter, I2,Leipzig1914. Cassius Dio, Cassii Dionis Cocceiani Historiarum Romanarum quae supersunt,ed. U.P. Boissevain, Berlin 1895–1931. Diodorus of Sicily, Bibliotheca Historica,eds.I.Bekker–L.Dindorf–F.Vogel, Leipzig 1888–1906. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dionysi Halicarnassensis Antiquitatum romanarum quae supersunt,ed.C.Jacoby,Leipzig1885–1925. Festus, Breviarum rerum gestarum populi Romani, ed. M.-P. Arnaud-Lindet, Paris 1994. Florus, Epitome, ed. P. Jal, Paris 1967. Frontinus, Stratagemata, ed. R.I. Ireland, Leipzig 1990. Aulus Gellius, Noctium Atticarum libri XX, ed. C. Hosius, Leipzig 1903. Horace, Opera, ed. D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Stuttgart 1985. Julius Obsequens, De prodigiis, ed. O. Rossbach, Leipzig 1910. Justin, Epitome Historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi, ed. O. Seel, Leipzig 1935. Liber coloniarum, ed. B. Campbell, The Writings of the Roman Land Surveyors, London 2000. Granius Licinianus, Reliquiae, ed. N. Criniti, Leipzig 1981. Livy, Ab Urbe condita liber XXXVII, ed. J.M. Engel, Paris 1983. Livy, Periochae, ed. P. Jal, Paris 1984. Lucretius, de rerum natura, ed. C. Bailey, Oxford 1993. Memnon of Heraclea, ed. F. Jacoby, FGrHist 434. Orosius, Historia adversus paganos, ed. M.-P. Arnaud-Lindet, Paris 1991. Ovid, Fasti, ed. F. Bömer, Heidelberg 1957–1958. Pausanias, Graeciae descriptio, ed. M.H. Rocha-Pereira, Leipzig 1973–1977. PhlegonofTralles,ed.F.Jacoby,FGrHist 257. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae libri XXXVII,eds.L.Janus–K.Mayhoff, Leipzig 1865–1880. Plutarch, Vitae parallelae, ed. K. Ziegler, Leipzig 1914–1935. ———Moralia,eds.W.Patonet al., Leipzig 1925–1974. Polyaenus, Stratagematon libri octo, eds. E. Wülfflin – I. Melber, Stuttgart 1887. Polybius, Historiae, ed. Schweighaeuser, Leipzig 1789–1795. Posidonius, ed. F. Jacoby, FGrHist 87. Prudentius, Peristephanon liber, ed. M. Lavarenne, Paris 1951. Rhetorica ad Herennium,ed.G.Achard,Paris1989. Rutilius Namatianus, De reditu suo: sive, Iter Gallicum, ed. E. Doblhofer, Heidel- berg 1972–1977. Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, ed. P. McGushin, Bristol 19922. ———Bellum Jugurthinum, ed. L.D. Reynolds, Oxford 1991. ———Historiarum reliquiae, ed. B. Maurenbrecher, Leipzig 1891–1893. Seneca, de brevitate vitae, ed. P. Grimal, Paris 1959..
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