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The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Latin Texts site claims to have 'essentially' all of the texts from before 200 AD plus a few others.
Is this really all of the text from before 200 AD? I would like to know what they mean by 'essentially'. I suppose I should discount tiny fragments here and there, plus graffiti or inscriptions and I guess a few works discovered in Herculaneum recently. I would think there would be more.
"I would think there would be more."
More than 362 individual authors? Most people, when they come across the site, fail to notice the little check box at the top right corner of the page (under the name of the site), so it looks substantially less. If you did see that and wanted more, keep in mind, as brianpck mentioned, this doesn't include inscriptions, coins, etc.
That said, I'm sure one or two have slipped by here or there. Just checking over Cornell's Fragments of the Roman Historians, I don't see Tuditanus mentioned, although possibly this is due to the uncertainty surrounding the author. Vennonius too is absent, but with a single Latin fragment (also bound up with uncertainties), there are good reasons why he might have been overlooked. Same with Paulus Clodius.
PHI is a respectable database (and has been for decades), so yeah, there may be some omissions, but it is fairly complete with the caveat that this is for literary Latin.
Note the exact wording:
This website contains essentially all Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200
Emphasis mine. The PHI corpus is focused on literature, and does truly include essentially all Latin literature from that time period—but omits inscriptions, graffiti, and so on.
The "essentially" reflects some uncertainty in what should be considered a Latin literary text. Fragments with uncertain attribution, for example, might be included or might not, depending on the views of the corpus organizers. But these edge cases are a tiny minority of the corpus.
