Two * Orations to C. Caesar attributed to Salust.
* MAny Learned Men have made a Question whether these Orations were really writ∣ten by Salust or no. But Douza, one of his Com∣mentators stiffly maintains 'em to be the Genuine
All the works of that famous historian Salust Containing, I. The conspiracy and war of Cataline, undertaken against the government of the senate of Rome. [2]. The war which Jugurth for many years maintained against the same state. With all his historical fragments. Two epistles to Cæasar concerning the institution of a common-wealth and one against Cicero: with annotations. To which is prefixt the life of Salust. Made English according to the present idiom of speech.
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- All the works of that famous historian Salust Containing, I. The conspiracy and war of Cataline, undertaken against the government of the senate of Rome. [2]. The war which Jugurth for many years maintained against the same state. With all his historical fragments. Two epistles to Cæasar concerning the institution of a common-wealth and one against Cicero: with annotations. To which is prefixt the life of Salust. Made English according to the present idiom of speech.
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- Sallust, 86-34 B.C.
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- [London] :: Printed for R. Wilde, at the Map of the World in St. Paul's Church-Yard,
- 1692.
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- Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Early works to 1800.
- Sallust, 86-34 B.C. -- Early works to 1800.
- Rome -- History -- Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C. -- Early works to 1800.
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"All the works of that famous historian Salust Containing, I. The conspiracy and war of Cataline, undertaken against the government of the senate of Rome. [2]. The war which Jugurth for many years maintained against the same state. With all his historical fragments. Two epistles to Cæasar concerning the institution of a common-wealth and one against Cicero: with annotations. To which is prefixt the life of Salust. Made English according to the present idiom of speech." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60419.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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Productions of the same Author. Nor are the Arguments he brings without great probability and reason. For he alledges not only the Con∣sent and Agreement of the Vellum Originals but the congruity of stile and censorious No∣tions, natural only to that Satyrical and Grave Historian. Further he asserts that there is not that Purity of Latin in Tacitus, besides the vast difference between the Writers of the Flavian and Julian Times. Whereas it is object∣ed that there is not the same conciseness in these Orations as in the rest of Salust's Writings, that seems of little moment, since there can be nothing more concise nor more agreeable to Salustian brevity then the Stile and Language of these Orations. But the same Commentator mislikes the Title of Orations: and that not without just Cause, since the Author himself gives them the Appellation of Epistles. Forsitan, says he, Impera tor, perlectis Literis, decernes, &c. So that allow∣ing these two small Peices to be the Works of Salust and no other we shall only alter the Title, and call 'em,