Thirty essays on ancient, medieval and Neo-Latin literature, written by former students and colleagues of J.H. Brouwers. A.o.: A.A.R. BASTIAENSEN: Das Brautpaar des Hohen Liedes in der frühchristlichen Literatur des Abendlandes (pp.15-29); L.J. ter BEEK: Einige Bemerkungen zur argumentatio in Ciceros Rede für Sextus Roscius aus Ameria (pp.45-79); J.A.E. BONS: Alcidamas On the sophists and epideictic Rhetoric (pp.97-107); KA.E. ENENKEL: Ovid, Tristia IV,10: Rhetorische Strategien und Interpretation (pp.113-131); A.J.L. van HOOFF: Voluntary Death in Latin (pp.143-163); V.J.Chr. HUNINK: The fish catalogue in Ausonius' Mosella. Literary Backgrounds of Mos. 75-149 (pp.163-177); A.H.M. KESSELS: Antigone transformed: Sophocles and Anouilh (pp.177-193); P.H. SCHRIJVERS: A la recherche du discours indirect libre chez Tacite (pp.229-241); G.R. DIBBETS: 'Heidnische Tapferkeit': gerechtfertigt, übersetzt (pp.283-307); C.L. HEESAKKERS: A patre id esse scias. The first critical edition of the fragments of Lucilius by Francischus Dousa (Leiden 1597) (pp.343-359); M.H. KOENEN: Quo carmine demum. Ida Gerhardt's thesis on Lucretius' De rerum natura (pp.379-393).