Editing Classical Latin (section)

=== Augustan ===
{{Main|Augustan literature (ancient Rome)}}
The Golden Age is divided by the assassination of [[Julius Caesar]]. In the wars that followed, a generation of Republican literary figures was lost. Cicero and his contemporaries were replaced by a new generation who spent their formative years under the old constructs, and forced to make their mark under the watchful eye of a new emperor. The demand for great orators had ceased,{{Sfn|Teuffel|1873|p=385|ps =, "Public life became extinct, all political business passed into the hands of the monarch..."}} shifting to an emphasis on poetry. Other than the historian [[Livy]], the most remarkable writers of the period were the poets [[Virgil]], [[Horace]], and [[Ovid]]. Although Augustus evidenced some toleration to republican sympathizers, he exiled Ovid, and imperial tolerance ended with the continuance of the [[Julio-Claudian dynasty]].

Augustan writers include:
* [[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]] (Virgil, spelled also as Vergil; 70 – 19 BC),
* [[Horace|Quintus Horatius Flaccus]] (65 – 8 BC), known for lyric poetry and satires
* [[Sextus Propertius|Sextus Aurelius Propertius]] (50 – 15 BC), poet
* [[Albius Tibullus]] (54–19 BC), elegiac poet
* [[Publius Ovidius Naso]] (43 BC – AD 18), poet
* [[Livy|Titus Livius]] (64 BC – AD 12), historian
* [[Grattius Faliscus]] (a contemporary of Ovid), poet
* [[Marcus Manilius]] (1st century BC and AD), astrologer, poet
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]] (64 BC – AD 17), librarian, poet, mythographer
* [[Marcus Verrius Flaccus]] (55 BC – AD 20), grammarian, philologist, calendarist
* [[Vitruvius|Marcus Vitruvius Pollio]] (80–70 BC — after 15 BC), engineer, architect
* [[Marcus Antistius Labeo]] (d. AD 10 or 11), jurist, philologist
* [[Lucius Cestius Pius]] (1st century BC & AD), Latin educator
* [[Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus]] (1st century BC), historian, naturalist
* [[Marcus Porcius Latro]] (late 1st century BC – early 1st century AD), rhetorician
* [[Gaius Valgius Rufus]] (consul 12 BC), poet