De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino

De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino

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Title: De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino
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Classical Series. Edited By Drs. Schmitz And Zumpt.
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C SALLUSTII CRISPI
DE BELLO CATILINARIO et JUGURTHINO.
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PREFACE.
The text of Sallust, notwithstanding the many and excellent editions
which have been published, has not yet acquired a form that can be
regarded as generally adopted and established; for the number of
manuscripts is great, and their differences have led critical editors to
form different opinions as to which, in each case, is the correct reading,
or at least the one most worthy of acceptation. This difference of
opinion manifested itself especially after the edition of Gottleib Corte
(Leipzig, 1724, 4to.), who in many passages abandoned the vulgate as
constituted by Gruter and Wasse, and on the authority of a few
manuscripts, altered the text of Sallust, on the mere supposition that his

style was abrupt. Corte's recension was adopted by many, and often
reprinted; while others, especially Haverkamp, in his valuable and very
complete edition (Hague, 1742, 2 vols. 4to.), returned to the vulgate.
The latest critical editors of Sallust--Gerlach (Basel, 1823, &c. 3 vols.
4to., and a revised text, Basel, 1832, 8vo.) and Kritz (Leipzig, 1828, &c.
2 vols. 8vo.)--though declaring against the arbitrary proceedings of
Corte, yet very often differ in their texts from each other. Between
these two stands the edition of the learned critic, J. C. Orelli (Zurich,
1840), whose text forms the basis of the present edition. But besides
abandoning his artificial and antiquated orthography, and restoring that
which is adopted in most editions of Latin classics, we have felt
obliged in many instances to give up Orelli's reading, and to follow the
authority of the best manuscripts, especially the Codex Leidensis
(marked L in Haverkamp's edition). For our explanatory notes we are
much indebted to the edition of Kritz, though we have often been under
the necessity of differing from him.
C. G. Zumpt.
Berlin, May, 1848.
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INTRODUCTION.
Caius Sallustius Crispus, according to the statement of the ancient
chronologer Hieronymus, was born in B. C. 86, at Amiternum, in the
country of the Sabines (to the north-east of Rome), and died four years
before the battle of Actium--that is, in B.C. 34 or 35. After having no
doubt gone through a complete course of law and the art of oratory, he
devoted himself to the service of the Roman republic at a time when
Rome was internally divided by the struggle of the opposite factions of
the optimates, or the aristocracy, and the populares, or the democratical
party. The optimates supported the power of the senate, and of the
nobility who prevailed in the senate; while the populares were exerting
themselves to bring all public questions of importance before the
popular assembly for decision, and resisted the influence of illustrious
and powerful families, whose privileges, arising from birth and wealth,

they attempted to destroy. Sallust belonged to the latter of these parties.
In B.C. 52 he was tribune of the people, and took an active part in the
disturbances which were caused at Rome in that year by the open
struggles between Annius Milo, one of the optimates, who was
canvassing for the consulship, and P. Clodius, who was trying to obtain
the praetorship. Milo slew Clodius on a public road: he was accused by
the populares, and defended by the optimates; but the judges, who