| A | B |
| Annales | Ennius - 18 books - hexameter |
| Origines | Cato the Elder - first prose history - 7 books |
| Bellum Punicum | Naevius - epic - saturnian |
| De Re Rustica | 1)Cato |
| Adelphi | Terence |
| Andria | Terence |
| Hecyra | Terence |
| Heauton Timorumenos | Terence |
| Eunuchus | Terence |
| Phormio | Terence |
| Sermones | 1)Lucilius (Iter Siciliam) 2)Horace - 2 books (Iter Brundisium; Bore in the Forum; City/Country Mouse) |
| De Rerum Natura | Lucretius - hexameter - 6 books - epicurean philosophy & atomic theory |
| Peleus & Thetis | Catullus - Poem #64 - epillion |
| Georgics | Virgil - didactic - hexameter - 4 bks |
| Eclogues | Virgil - pastoral - hexamter - 10 poems |
| Aeneid | Virgil - epic - hexameter - 12 books |
| Catalepton | Virgil (A.V.) |
| Ciris | Virgil (A.V.) |
| Copa | Virgil (A.V.) "dancing girl" |
| Culex | Virgil (A.V.) "gnat" |
| Dirae | Virgil (A.V.) |
| Moretum | Virgil (A.V.) "salad" |
| Aetna | Virgil (A.V.) |
| Carmen Seculare | Horace - for the Secular Games |
| Epodes | Horace - 17 poems - lyric poems |
| Odes | Horace - 4 books - Sappho & Alceus models |
| Epistles | 3 books - hexameter - Epistle ad Pisones & Ars Poetica |
| Ars Poetica | Horace ( 3rd Epistle) |
| Epistulae ad Pisones | Horace (3rd Epistle) |
| Cynthia monbiblos | Propertius - 1st book of 4 books of elegy |
| Ars Amatoria | Ovid - "Art of Love" |
| Remedia Amoris | Ovid |
| Metamorphoses | 1) Ovid - 15 bks - hexameter 2)Apuleius - aka The Golden Ass - 11 bks |
| Tristia | Ovid - 5 bks |
| Epistulae ex Ponto | Ovid |
| Heroides | Ovid - 21 letters from deserted heroines |
| Fasti | Ovid - on the Roman calendar |
| In Verrem | Cicero - 4 speeches against Verres corrupt Gov. of Sicily |
| In Catalinam | Cicero - 4 speeches against Cataline who conspired to overthrow Cicero's consulship (63 B.C.) |
| De Re Publica | Cicero - contains the "Somnium Scipionis" (Dream of Scipio) |
| De Senectute | Cicero - phil. tract "On Old Age" - Cato plays a part |
| Pro Lege Manilia (On the Manilian Law) | Cicero - supports Pompey's command |
| Pro Milone | Cicero - support of Milo's murder of Clodius - lost the case |
| De Natura Deorum | Cicero - on the forces that control life |
| Tusculanae Disputationes | Cicero |
| De Amicitia | Cicero (also know as the Laelius) |
| Commentarii De Bello Gallico | Caesar - On the Gallic War - 7 books (8th book written by Hirtius) |
| Commentarii De Bello Civili | Caesar - On the Civil War (49-48) |
| De Analogia | Caesar - lost work on grammar |
| Anticatones | Caesar - 2 books - reply to the "Cato" of Cicero |
| De Lingua Latina | Varro - 25 book dict & gram |
| Chronica | Cornelius Nepos - 3 bks - universal history |
| Exempla | Varro - anecdotes |
| De Viris Illustribus | 1)Cornelius Nepos - biographies mostly non-Romans |
| Bellum Jugurthinum | Sallust - On the Jugurthine War |
| Bellum Catallinae | Sallust - On Cataline's Conspiracy |
| Ab Urbe Condita | Livy - 142 bks (35 extant) |
| Res Gestae | Augustus - "Accomplishments" |
| De Architectura | Vitruvius - 10 bks - dedic. to Augustus |
| Pharsalia | Lucan - 10 bks - epic - Pompey is hero |
| "Aesopian" fables | Phaedrus - 5 books of fables |
| Phillipics | Cicero - 14 vitriolic speeches against Marc Antony |
| Punica | Silius Italicus - 17 bk - on 2nd Punic War - longest Latin poem |
| Satyricon | Petronius (Arbiter) - first novel - contains Trimalchio's dinner |
| Naturalis Historia | Pliny the Elder - 37 bk encyclopedia |
| Institutio Oratio | Quintilian - 12 bks on rhetoric |
| De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae | Quintilian |
| letter to Trajan about Christians | Pliny the Youger (while gov. of Bithynia) |
| Letter to Tacitus about Vesuvius | Pliny the Younger memorializes his uncle Pliny the Elder |
| Asinus Aureus | Apuleius - aka Metamorphoses - 11 books |
| Cupid and Psyche | Apuleius - story is part of the Golden Ass/Metamorphoses |
| Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights) | Aulus Gellius - 20 bks - collection of stories |
| Androclus and the Lion | Aulus Gellius - one of the stories in his Noctes Atticae |
| Apocoloncyntosis | Seneca the Younger - satire on death of Claudius (pumkin-god) |
| Satires | Juvenal - 5 bks with 16 satires |
| Epigrammata | Martial - 12 bks - mostly elegaic |
| Liber Spectaculorum | Martial - 30 epigrams commemorating opening of Colosseum in 80 AD |
| Agricola | Tacitus - about his father-in-law's exploits in Britain |
| Germania | Tacitus - about the German tribes |
| Dialogue de Oratoribus | Tacitus - 4 men discuss decline of oratory |
| the Confessions | St. Augustine |
| City of God | St. Augustine |