Velleius Paterculus

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Velleius Paterculus

…As a historian, Tacitus wrote the great works Annals and Histories, which thoroughly exposed the evils of the empire, and the smaller works Germania and Life of Agricola. As a rhetorician, he wrote Dialogues on the Orators. Other historians include Velleius Paterculus, Curtius Rufus, and Florus. Other prose writers include Petronius, author of the novel Satyricon; Pliny the Elder, author of the encyclopedia Natural History; Pliny the Younger, an orator who left behind a collection of letters; Columella, who left behind a book on agriculture; Suetonius, a biographer who wrote Lives of the Emperors and Lives of the Notables, a philosopher and author of the novel The Metamorphoses of the Golden Ass; and Gellius, author of the Attic Nights. …

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Japanese:

…タキトゥスは歴史家として,帝政の悪事を余すところなくえぐり出した大作《年代記》と《歴史》,および小品の《ゲルマニア》と《アグリコラの生涯》を,また修辞学者としては《弁論家についての対話》を著した。ほかにウェレイウス・パテルクルスVelleius Paterculus,クルティウス・ルフスCurtius Rufus,フロルスなどの歴史家の名がみられる。またそのほかの散文作家には,小説《サテュリコン》の作者ペトロニウス,百科全書《博物誌》の著者の大プリニウス,《書簡集》を残した雄弁家の小プリニウス,農学書を残したコルメラ,2世紀に入って,《皇帝伝》と《名士伝》を著した伝記作家スエトニウス,哲学者で小説《黄金のろば(転身物語)》の作者アプレイウス,《アッティカ夜話》の著者ゲリウスなどがいる。…

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