Citations

The Historia Numorum included a good bibliography of scholarly publications from the 17th to early 20th centuries. No key was provided for the works of ancient authors. I have attempted to expand abbreviations and provide web links to the works cited.

-Ed Snible, Sept 2004

Ancient Works Cited

• Bible
  • Genesis [English KJV]
  • 1st Chronicles [English KJV]
  • Matthew [English KJV]
  • Mark [English KJV]
  • The Acts of the Apostoles (also cited as Acts) [English KJV]
• (Author unknown)
  • Itineraria Antonini Augusti (cited as Itin. Ant.)
  • Agamemnon (play)
  • Etymologicum Magnum (cited as Etym. Magn.) [published in 1499. Entymological dictionary]
• Achilles Tatius
• Claudius Aelianus (cited as Aelian)
  • de Natura Animalium (= On the Characteristics of Animals) (Cited as Hist. Anim.)
  • Varia Historia (= Historical Miscellany) (cited as Var. Hist.)
• Aeschylus
  • Prometheus Vinctus (cited as Prom. Vinct.)
• Appian
  • Bellum Civile (Cited as Bell. Civ.)
  • Praef.
  • Syrica (Cited as Syr.)
• ? Apollodorus of Athens (cited as Apollod.)
• Archestratus
  • ap. Athen.
• Aristophanes (cited as Aristoph., Arist.)
  • Aves (= Birds) (cited as Av.) [English and Greek]
  • Ecclesiazousae (= The Assemblywomen) (cited as Eccl.)
  • Nubes (= Clouds) (cited as Nub.)
  • Ran.
  • Thesmaphoriazousae (= The Festival Women) (cited as Thesm.)
• Aristotle
  • Athenian Politics (Weldon translation; cited as Ath. Pol. or Αθ. πολ.) [Greek] [English]
• Arrian
  • Anabasis Alexandri (cited as Anab.)
• Athenaeus (cited as Athen., Ath.)
• Caesar Augustus
  • Res gestae divi Augusti (= The Deeds of the Divine Augustus) [Greek] [English]
• Aulus Gellius
  • Noctes Atticae (cited as Noct. Att.) [Latin]
• Cassius Dio (cited as Dion Cass.)
  • [English]
• Cicero (cited as Cic.)
  • Pro Archia (cited as Pro Arch.) [English and Latin]
  • Pro Balbo (cited as Pro Balb.) [English and Latin]
  • Orationes Verrinae (Cited as II Verr.) [English and Latin]
  • ad Atticum (cited as ad Att.) [English and Latin]
  • Oratio in P. Vatinium (Cited as in Vat.) [English and Latin]
  • Oratio de Lege Agraria contra Rullum (Cited as De Lege agra.) [English and Latin]
• Demosthenes
  • For Phormio (cited as Phorm.)
• Damascius
  • ap. Phot. Bibl.
• Dio Cassius (cited as Dio Cass.)
• Dio Chrysostom
  • Discourses (cited as Orat.)
• Diodorus Siculus (cited as Diodorus or Diod.)
  • Bibliotheke (Cited as Reliq. or without title).
• Diogenes Laertius (cited as Diog. Laert.)
• Dion of Halicarnassus (cited as Dion Halic.)
  • Rhomaikes Archaiologias (= Roman Antiquities) (cited as Ant. Rom.)
• Euripedes
  • Hecuba (cited as Hec.) [English and Greek]
• Eusebius of Caesarea (cited as Euseb.)
• Eustathius (cited as Eustath., Eust.)
  • ad Hom. (= Commentary on Homer)
• Herodotus (cited as Herod. or Hdt.)
  • The Histories of Herodotus
• Hellanicus of Lesbos
• Hero of Alexandria (cited as Heron)
  • Πνευματικα (= Pneumatics)
• Hesiod (cited as Hes.)
  • Theogeny (cited as Theog.)
• Hesychius (cited as Hesych.)
• Homer (cited as Homer or Hom.)
  • The Iliad (cited as Il.)
  • The Odyssey (cited as Od.)
  • Homeric Hymn to Apollo
• Horace (cited as Hor.)
  • Sat.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus (cited as Hyginus)
  • Fab.
• Josephus (cited as Joseph.)
  • Antiquitates Judaeorum (= Jewish Antiquities) (cited as Ant. Jud.) [English]
• Julius Caesar
  • Bellum Civile (cited as Bell. Civ.) [English]
  • ??? (cited as Comm.)
• Junianus Justin (cited as Justin) [English]
• Juvenal
  • [Latin]
• Livy (city as Livy or Liv.)
  • Ab Urbe Condita (= From the Founding of the City) [Latin] [English]
• Lucan
  • Pharsalia (cited as Phars.)
• Lucian
  • Anacharsis
  • De dea Syria (= Concerning the Syrian Goddess) (cited as de dea Syr.) [English]
• Lycophron
• Macrobius (cited as Macrob.)
  • Saturnalia (cited as Sat., Saturn.)
• Pomponius Mela (cited as Mela)
• George Pachymeres (cited as Pachymeres)
• Pausanias (cited as Paus.)
  • Description of Greece [Greek and English]
• Philostratus
  • Life of Apollonius
• Pindar
  • Isthmian Odes (Cited as Isthm.)
  • Olympian Odes (cited as Ol.)
  • Pythian Odes (cited as Pyth.)
• Plato
  • Cratylus (cited as Cratyl.)
• Pliny the Elder (cited as Pliny or Plin.)
  • Historia Naturalis (= Natural History) (cited as N. H., H. N., or Hist. Nat.)
• Pliny the Younger (cited as Pliny)
  • Pliny’s Letter to Trajan and Trajan’s rescript
• Plutarch (cited as Plut.)
  • Apophth. Reg. et Imp. (Themist.)
  • Arat.
  • Vita Themist.
  • De fortuna Alexandri (cited as Alex.)
  • Demetrius (Cited as Demetr.) [English]
  • Lucullus (Cited as Luc.)
  • Lys.
  • Pelopidas (Cited as Pelop.)
  • Philopoemon (Cited as Philop.) [English]
  • De Pythiae oraculis (cited as De Pyth. Orac., Pyth. Orac.)
  • Quaest. Gr.
  • De sollertia animalium (cited as Sol., De solert. Anim.)
  • Sulla (Cited as Sul.) [English]
  • Sympos.
  • Theseus (Cited as Thes.) [English and Greek]
  • Timoleon (cited as Tim.)
• Pollux Julius (cited as Pollux, Poll., J. Pollux, Jul. Pol.)
  • Onomasticon (cited as Onom.)
• Polybius (cited as Polyb.)
• Claudius Ptolemaeus (cited as Ptol.)
• Maurus Servius Honoratius (cited as Servius)
  • ad. Aen
• Gaius Julius Solinus (cited as Solinus)
• Simonides of Ceos (cited as Simonides)
  • apud Athen.
• Sophocles (cited as Soph.)
  • Electra (cited as Electr.) [English and Greek]
  • Philoktetes [English and Greek]
• Stephanus of Byzantium (cited as Steph. Byz.)
• Strabo (cited as Strabo or Strab.)
  • Geographia [English and Greek, only books 6-14]
• Suetonius (cited as Suet.)
  • De vita Caesarum (= Lives of the Ceasars)
• Tacitus (cited as Tac.)
  • Annals (cited as Ann.) [English] [English and Latin]
• Theophrastus
  • Historia Plantarum (cited as Hist. Plant.)
• Thucydides (cited as Thuc.)
  • [English and Greek Text]
• Virgil (cited as Virg.)
  • Georgics (cited as Georg.) [English and Latin]
  • The Aeneid (cited as Aen.) [English]
• Xenophon (cited as Xen.)
  • Anabasis (cited as Anab.)
  • Hellenica (cited as Hellen., Hell.) [English and Greek]