PREFACE
In the absence of an entirely satisfactory text of Sallust, the translator has made his own. In some points of orthography. for example in the assimilation of prepositions, he has not followed the manuscripts, but has aimed rather at uniformity.
A complete translation of Sallust was submitted, including all the fragments on the basis of Maurenbrecher's edition of the Histories, but the General Editors decided, partly from considerations of space and partly because of the slight interest of the shorter bits, that only the complete Orations and Letters should be printed. To these have been added the Pseudo-Sallustian works mentioned on p. xviii of the Introduction.
In not a few instances, perhaps oftener than a more gifted translator would have found necessary, Sallust's sententious brevity has been sacrificed to clearness.
October, 1920.
