C. Sallusti Crispi (Sallust); Adam Eussner, ed.
Catilina Iugurtha: Exhistoriis Orationes Et Epistulae
Lipsiae (Leipzig), Germany, B.G. Teubneri , 1891. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, and from the library of, first, A.L. Peck, who inscribed his name and date at first free endpaper, and then the noted Classicist, Peter Morris Green. An apparent First Edition, and uber-scarce in the trade, there being also only 11 copies in a library as revealed by Worldcat dot org holdings. Bound in brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering over an abraded brown leather label at spine. Light soiling and wear to endpapers, else clean, and bumping to tips. Extensive penciled notations from the former owner to p. 40, clean and unmarked thereafter. Laid in is "A Systematical Bibliography of Sallust (1879-1950)by A.D. Leeman provided from E.J. Brill, Publisher. Also laid in are four fully annotated (in pencil) pages of heavy card-stock, evincing great erudition and passion in their focus. From another publisher's blurb about a collection of Sallust's life and work, "Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted against Cicero and Milo as tribune in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign as praetor in 46, and was then appointed governor of New Africa (Numidia). Upon his return to Rome he narrowly escaped conviction for malfeasance in office, retired from public life, and took up historiography. Sallust's two extant monographs take as their theme the moral and political decline of Rome, one on the conspiracy of Catiline and the other on the war with Jugurtha. Although Sallust is decidedly unsubtle and partisan in analyzing people and events, his works are important and significantly influenced later historians, notably Tacitus. Taking Thucydides as his model but building on Roman stylistic and rhetorical traditions, Sallust achieved a distinctive style, concentrated and arresting; lively characterizations, especially in the speeches; and skill at using particular episodes to illustrate large general themes." 146 pp. including a full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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