BELUM CATILINARIUM et GRTHIN JA Ex optima atque accuratiffima GOTTLIEB CORTII editione expreffum. Alex R, Salust SALLUST'S Hiftory of CATILINE'S Conpiracy and the War with JUGURTHA, Jeremy #h29, 1977 ecem, the According to the excellent and accurate edition of GOTTLIEB CORTIUS. With an English Tranflation as literal as poffible, and large explanatory Notes. Crifpus Romana primus in hifforia. MARTIAL. lib. 14 EDINBURGH: Printed by DAVID WILLISON For A. KINCAID & J. BELL.. MDCCLXX, PREFACE. 10 infift upon the character of SALLUST, as a great genius and a fine hiftorian, is none of my defign; his works fpeak fufficiently for hemselves, and have long fince procured him fuch eputation amongft the learned, as fets him far above: he need of any encomiums of this kind. All I now ropofe is, to give fome fhort account of the followng tranflation; and for this purpose it will be neceffary to obferve, that tranflations are of two kinds,. the one free, the other literal or verbal. In free tranflations, the thing chiefly confidered, is the fenfe or thought of the author; which the tranflator endeavours to exprefs in a juft, clear, and ele gant manner, without much regard to the precife. meaning of every individual word in the original.. It is the bufinefs of fuch a tranflator, accurately to convey his author's ideas, to keep up his fpirit and fine turns; to inftruct, affect, and charm his reader, in the fame manner as his author would do one who thoroughly understands the language he writes in: but he is far from being obliged to have words in his version that fhall anfwer and explain every single word in the original. And fuch tranflations of the claffics may be of excellent ufe to those who do not understand Latin, and yet want to acquaint themfelves with the hiftory given us by the Roman authors. They may too, I grant, be a confiderable help to fuch as are applying themselves to the study of Latin, provided the ftudent be not a mere novice in the language; for in that cafe a free tranflation is abfolutely unfit, and can be of no manner of fervice. A learner, in order to receive any benefit from fuch a tranflation, muft at least have beforehand a pretty general acquaintance with Latin words, a 2 and |