HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET. SOLD BY COLLINS, KEESE, & CO., AND N. & J. WHITE.-PHILADELPHIA: This ed not in Reed & eber 29/192.0 Sallust SALLUST'S JAY-PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LITERATURE, IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE, AND RECTOR SIXTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. NEW-YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET. SOLD BY COLLINS, KEESE, & CO., AND N. & J. WHITE.-PHILADELPHIA : 284A Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1836, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. IN preparing a new edition of Sallust for the press, the editor has taken the greatest care to make such alterations and improvements, in the work, as may render it a still more useful guide to the student than its predecessors have proved. The principal changes will be found to consist in a more enlarged commentary on the Jugurthine war, in the placing of this production of Sallust's before the narrative of the conspiracy of Catiline, and in the two Indexes, the one Geographical, the other Historical, which have been appended to the work. The enlargement of the notes on the Jugurthine war has been made at the request of several instructors, who thought that a more ample commentary on this part of the historian's labours was needed by their pupils. The change introduced into the body of the work, by placing the narrative of the war with Jugurtha before the account of Catiline's conspiracy, cannot but meet with the approbation of all who lay claim to any |