Sallust (Loeb Classical Library No. 116)

I read Woodman’s Penguin translation. Unless you need the Latin I’d recommend that one as it has better notes. However, what this edition has is the Pseudo-Sallustian works. I thought I’d give them a go in the spirit of ‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’. I didn’t expect much and there’s really not much to them. They’re all fake. Rhetorical exercises written much later. You’ll literally be reading someone’s homework. The Oration Against Cicero might be a political pamphlet from the time. Interesting if so, but its provenance can’t be proven. I have to admire what Loeb is doing here. No one else is going to translate this sort of thing and without them those of us who can’t read Latin would never be able to descide show more for ourselves what from the ancient world is or isn’t worth reading. show less

Edition: // Descr: xxvi, 535 p. 17 cm. // Series: The Loeb Classical Library Call No. { 878 S3-L 1 } Series Edited by T.E. Page With an English Translation by J.C. Rolfe Contains Index. // //