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[78] _Cat._ 3. The chapter is very characteristic; _Jug._ 3, scarcely less so.

[79] Suet. Gram. 15, tells us that a freedman of Pompey named Lenaeus vilified Sall.u.s.t; he quotes one sentence: _Nebulonem vita scriptisque monstrosum; praeterea priscorum Catonisque ineruditissimum furem_. Cf.

Pseudo-Cic. Decl. in Sall. 8; Dio. Hist. Rom. 43, 9.

[80] _Res gestas carptim ut quaeque memoria digna videbantur, perscribere_. Cat. 4.

[81] Anson, id. iv. _ad Nepotem_ implies that he began his history 90 B.C.

Cf. Plutarch, _Compar. of Sulla and Lysander_. And see on this controversy Dict. Biog. s. v. _Sall.u.s.t_.

[82] Jug. 95.

[83] Suet. J. C. 3.

[84] _A spe, metu, partibus, liber_.--Cat. 4; cf. Tac. Hist. i. 1. So in the Annals, _sine ira et studio_.

[85] This is not certain, but the consensus of scholars is in favour of it.

[86] Cat. 31, Cicero's speech is called _luculenta atque utilis Reipublicae_, cf. ch. 48.

[87] Ib. 8, 41, compared with Caes. B. C. ii. 8; iii. 58, 60.

[88] Ib. 1, compared with 52 (Caesar's speech).

[89] See esp. Cat. 54.

[90] Jug. 15.

[91] Ib. 67.

[92] Jug. 31.

[93] Cat. 35, 43; cf. also ch. 49.

[94] Jug. 95.

[95] Cat. 5.

[96] Jug. 6, _sqq._

[97] Cat. 15, and very similarly Jug. 72.

[98] Quint. x. 1. _Nec opponere Thucydidi Sall.u.s.tium verear_. The most obvious imitations are, Cat. 12, 13, where the general decline of virtue seems based on Thuc. iii. 82, 83; and the speeches which obviously take his for a model.

[99] As instances we give--_multo maxime miserabile_ (Cat. 36), _incultus, us_ (54), _neglegisset_ (Jug. 40), _discordiscus_ (66), &c. Poetical constructions are--_Inf_. for _gerund_, often; _pleraque n.o.bilitas_ for _maxima pars n.o.bilium_ (Cat. 17). For _asyndeton_ cf. Cat. 5, _et saep.i.s.s._

[100] Cat. 10. The well-known line _os ch' eteron men kenthoi eni phresin, allo os bazoi_, is the original.

[101] Ib. i. 1, _virtus clara aeternaque habetur; obedientia finxit_.

[102] It should perhaps be noticed that many MSS. spell the name Sal.u.s.tius.