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Perseus, Loebs, Commentaries

Commentaries at Perseus

Below are links to commentaries to classical texts. While they used to be very useful for students starting to read Latin and Greek, I am not
sure how useful they are now. For help translating the text, Perseus and the Loeb translations are probably more useful.

The links go to the commentary on the text.  This means that you will have to search for the the prefatory essays which give the historical context of the work at the beginning of the book.

The links go to e-books at the Internet Archive.
You might gave to sign-up for a FREE account, to read them. 

 

Perseus also has links to many commentaries but they have arranged them alphabetically by title, which makes it slightly hard to locate. 

Catullus

Plautus

Amphitryon  Carrier xx
Asinaria Sugden  
Aulularia (Pot of Gold) Watling  
Bacchides Sugden  
Captives Watling Morris 

Barber 

Casina Beacham  
Cistellaria (Casket Comedy) Dillard  
Curculio Taylor  
Epidicus Duckworth Gray 

Menaechmi Watling Knight   Fowler 
Mercator (Merchant) Murphy  
Miles Gloriosus (Braggart Warrior) Watling  
Mostellaria (Haunted House) Murphy  
Persa (The Persian)  Bovie  
Poenulus (The Cathaginian) Duckworth  
Pseudolus Watling  
Rudens (The Rope) Chase  
Stichus Workman Fennell 

Trinummus  Duckworth Morris 

Gray 

Truculentus Duckworth  

Velleius Paterculus

Cicero

  Perseus Loeb
Academia Academia Academia
Brutus Brutus Brutus
de Amicitia Amicitia Amicitia
de Divinatione Divinatione Divinatione
de Domo sua  Domo de domo sua
de Fato Fato de Fato
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1     3   4   5 1   2   3   4   
de Haruspicum Responso Haruspicum de Haruspicum Responso
de Inventione no Perseus  de Inventione
de Lege Agraria 1   2     1   2    3   
de Legibus no Perseus de Legibus
de Natura Deorum 1     2     3 1   2    3 
de Officiis Officiis Officiis
de Optimo Genera Oratorum Optimo Optimo
de Oratore de Oratore Loeb 1-2   Loeb 3
de Oratore  de Oratore  Bk 1,2  Bk3
de Partitione Oratoria Partitione Partitione
de Provinciis Consularibus de Provinciis de provinciis consularibus
de Republica Republica Republica
de Senectute Senectute Senectute
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium Divinatio Caecilium
Epistula ad Octavianum Octavianum Octavian
Epistulae ad Atticum  Atticum Bk 1-6  Bk 7-11  Bk 12-16
Epistulae ad Brutum Brutum Brutus
Epistulae ad Familiares Familiares One  Two Three
Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem Quintum fratrem Quintus
  Perseus Loeb
in Catalinam 1    2    3    4 1    2    3   4
in Pisonem in Pisonem in Pisonem
in Vatinium  in Vatinium  in Vatinium
in Verrem in Verrem One   2.1   2.2   2.3  2.4  2.5
Lucullus Lucullus  
Orator Orator Orator
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum Paradoxa Paradoxa
Philippicae   2   3      5    6     1   2   3    4   5    6    7
Philippicae 8   9  10  11  12  13  14  8   9  10  11  12  13  14
post Reditum ad Populum  post Reditum  post Reditum ad Populum
post Reditum in Senatu post Reditum in Senatu post Reditum in Senatu
pro Archia  pro Archia pro Archia
pro Balbo pro Balbo pro Balbo
Pro Caecina Caecina Pro Caecina
pro Caelio pro Caelio pro Caelio
pro Cluentio  Pro Cluentio Pro Cluentio
pro Flacco  pro Flacco pro Flacco
pro Fronteo pro Fronteo  pro Fronteo
pro Lege Manilia  pro Lege Manilia  pro Lege Manilia 
pro Ligario pro Ligario pro Ligario
pro Marcello  pro Marcello  pro Marcello 
pro Milone  pro Milone  pro Milone
pro Murena  pro Murena pro Murena
  Perseus Loeb
pro Plancio  pro Plancio pro Plancio
pro Q. Roscio Comoedo pro Q. Roscio Comoedo pro Q. Roscio Comoedo
pro Quinctio  pro Quinctio  pro Quinctio 
pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo                                                              pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo pro Rabirio Perduellionis Reo
pro Rabirio Postumo  pro Rabirio Postumo pro Rabirio Postumo
pro rege Deiotaro pro rege Deiotaro pro rege Deiotaro
pro S. Roscio Amerino  pro S. Roscio Amerino  pro S. Roscio Amerino
pro Scauro pro Scauro pro Scauro
pro Sestio pro Sestio pro Sestio
pro Sulla  pro Sulla pro Sulla 
pro Tullio  pro Tullio  no Loeb
Rhetorica ad Herennium mo Perseus   1    2       4
Somnium Scipionis Somnium (De Re Publica VI 9-29) Somnium Scipionis
Topica  Topica Topica
Tusculanae Disputationes   2   3   4        3   4   
     
Perseus Cicero