Sallust on LacusCurtius

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The Texts

As almost always, I am retyping the texts rather than scanning them: not only to minimize errors prior to proofing, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with them, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

In the table of contents below, the items I've completely proofed are shown on blue backgrounds; any red backgrounds indicate that the proofreading is still incomplete. The header bar at the top of each webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. In either case of course, should you spot an error, please do report it.

The Author, the Manuscripts

John C. Rolfe, the translator of the Loeb edition, has provided an introduction, which also covers the principal manuscripts of Sallust's works.

Edition Used

The texts and English translation are those printed in the volume of the Loeb Classical Library, Sallust, first published in 1921, and last revised in 1931. The work is thus now in the public domain pursuant to the 1978 revision of the U.S. Copyright Code, since the last copyright expired in 1959 and was not renewed at the appropriate time, which would have been in 1958‑1959. (Details here.)

Elsewhere Online

Rather unusually, the original Latin text of almost all of Sallust's works and a partial set of translations into various languages were already online when I joined the fray: the exception is the fragments of the Histories.

As often, the student's best start is the fairly complete panoply of texts at Forum Romanum. Additional versions of the Catilina and the Bellum Jugurthinum, in Rev. John Watson's 1899 translation, may be found at

Perseus (Cat. — Jug.) • Project Gutenberg

Chapter and Section Numbering, Local Links

My own transcription, however, was an opportunity to make available a version of the text with its full complement of local links. Both chapters (large numbers) and sections (small numbers), then, mark these local links, according to a consistent scheme; you can therefore link to any passage directly. Similarly, for citation purposes, the Loeb edition pagination is indicated by local links in the sourcecode, and marked in the right margin.

Apparatus

The Loeb edition occasionally marks a textual difficulty or an alternative reading, and I've reproduced these notes. They don't constitute a systematic apparatus criticus, however, for which you should see one of the scholarly editions.

As elsewhere on my site, to streamline display of the text and simplify searches, editorial [square brackets] signifying text to be deleted are rendered in a paler color; and <angled brackets> signifying added emendations are shown in a brighter color, shown in the sourcecode as <FONT CLASS="emend">.

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The background of the icon with which I indicate this work is the blue that I use in the Roman Gazetteer section of the site as the background for Roman monuments of the Republican period, to which our author belongs; the motif of the icon itself is based on a photo of a modern statue of Sallust — the portrait is thus purely imaginative — in front of the Austrian parliament in Vienna; for a full photo, see this page of their website.

I find myself obliged to add, since a well-known cult site out there illustrates its article on Sallust with a coin purporting to portray our author, that that coin is at best what its file name suggests, a representation of Salus, a personification of Health — and I'm not too sure about that. A 4c contorniate medal has indeed been found that is said to depict Sallust, but is not what is represented in the image on that site. For the real item, see this page at WildWinds.