C. CRISPI SALLUSTII Bellum Catilinarium et Jugurthinum, CUM VERSIONE LIBERA. PREMITTITUR Vita SALLUSTII Auctore Viro Cl.. NECNON ET DISSERTATIO, in qua quam egregie conferant ad Linguam Lati- I. E. The HISTORY of the WARS OF CATILINE AND JUGURTHA, BY SALLUST. WITH A FREE TRANSLATION. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, The LIFE of SALLUST by the famous AS ALSO A large DISSERTATION upon the Usefulness of Translations of By JOHN CLARKE, of HULL." GLOGESTER: PRINTED BY R. RAI KE S. AND SOLD BY J. F. AND C. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH- M.DCC.LXXXIX. THE PREFACE. THE Character of SALLUST as an Hiftorian, is fo well known, and fo juftly established in the Learned World, that I judge it needlefs to enlarge upon the Subject; and I declineit the rather, because I am fenfible Encomiums of that Kind from a Tranflator or Commentator, are generally, and but too justly, fufpected by the most fenfible Readers, to proceed only from a Defign to fet off, or recommend more effectually his own Performance. It will not however be improper to obferve, that the Subjects, which have employed the elegant and judicious Pen of: this Hiftorian, are very well chofen Periods of the Roman Hiftory. Catiline's Confpiracy was fo defperate and villainous a Defign as is fcarcely to be paralleled in the Hiftory of Mankind. The Circumstances of it were fuch as to demand the Talents of the ableft Writer, and the deepest Attention of the ftudious Reader. And it is proper to add, that this very Attempt of Catiline rendered the Confulate of the illuftrious Roman Orator the most eminent that is to be found in the Annals of his Country. THE War against King Jugurtha too, for the Time of its Continuance, is as full of important and remarkable Incidents, as any other in the whole Roman Hiftory befides. We fee there to what a Height Bribery and Corruption were at that Time got in Rome; to fuch a Height indeed, that the Romans wanted but one Thing to compleat their Shame and Ruin at once, that is, to have had the Bill, which was preferred to the Peo A 2 plex |
