De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino

By Crispi, C. Sallustii

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Title:	De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino
Author:	Crispi, C. Sallustii
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: 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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: De Bello Catilinario et Jurgthino, 1 -- C Sallustii Crispi (Sallust), 1 -- Preface, 1 -- Introduction, 2 -- BELLUM CATILINARIUM, 6