Roman Writers

• Ammianus Marcellinus (330 - 391 AD)
• Appian (90 - 160 AD)
• Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius) (125 - 171 AD)
• Arrian (Flavius Arrianus) (96 - 180 AD)
• Athenaeus (Athenaeus of Naucratis) (ca. AD 200)
• Caesar (100 - 44 BC)
• Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato) (234 - 149 BC)
• Catullus (87 - 54 BC)
• Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (106 - 43 BC)
• Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella) (1st cent. A.D.)
• Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio Cocceianus) (155 - 235? AD)
• Dio Chrysostom (Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus) (ca40 - 120 AD)
• Diodorus Siculus (90 - 21 BC)
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus (60/55 - 7 BC)
• Eusebius (260 - 339 AD)
• Eutropius (Flavius Eutropius) (4th century AD)
• Florus (Lucius Annaeus Florus) (during reign of Hadrian)
• Frontinus (Sextus Julius Frontinus) (40 - 104 AD)
• Fronto (Marcus Cornelius Fronto) (100 - 167 AD)
• Galen (Claudius Galen) (129 - 199 AD)
• Gellius (Aulus Gellius) (123 - 169 AD)
• Herodian (170 - 240 AD)
• Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 - 8 BC)
• Josephus (37 - 100 AD)
• Julian the Apostate (Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus) (331 - 363 AD)
• Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis) (47 - 130 AD)
• Livy (Titus Livius) (59 BC - 17 AD)
• Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) (39 - 65 AD)
• Lucian (120 - 180 AD)
• Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (99 - 55 BC)
• Marcus Aurelius (Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) (121 - 180 AD)
• Martialis (Marcus Valerius Martialis) (38/41 - 100 AD )
• Nepos (Cornelius Nepos) (99 - 24 BC)
• Origen (Origenes Adamantius) (185 - 254 AD)
• Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 BC - 17 AD)
• Pausanias (2nd Century AD)
• Petronius (Petronius Arbiter) (27 BC - 66 AD)
• Philo (20 BC - 45 AD)
• Plautus (254–184 BC)
• Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) (23 - 79 AD)
• Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) (62 - 113 AD)
• Plutarch (50 - 125 AD)
• Polybius (200 - 123 BC)
• Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) (35 - 100 AD)
• Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (86 - 34 BC)
• Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (4 BC - 65 AD)
• Seneca the Elder (Seneca the Elder) (ca.55 Bc- ca.Ad 40)
• Sextus Propertius (50 BC - 2 BC)
• Strabo (66 BC - 24 AD)
• Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) (75 - 150 AD)
• Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus) (55 - 120 AD)
• Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) (160 - 230 AD)
• Valerius Maximus (Valerius Maximus) (c.20 BC-c.AD 50)
• Varro (Marcus Terrentius Varro) (116 - 27 BC)
• Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus) (c. 400 AD)
• Velleius (Velleius Paterculus) (20 BC - 30 AD)
• Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70 - 19 BC)
• Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) (c. late 1st cent BC and 1st cent. AD)

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Over the years, scholars have developed a number of schemes for abbreviating the names of ancient authors and the titles of their works. In general, a citation of an ancient work begins with the abbreviation for the author's name, followed by the appropriate abbreviation for the title of the work being cited.