PREFACE

The text of this edition of Sallust*s Bellum Catillnae is
based largely upon the edition of Professor Eussner (Leip¬
zig, 1900), but a certain number of changes have been
made, especially in the assimilation of consonants. All
other available texts and commentaries have been carefully
consulted. I have retained the archaic spelling as follows :
0 in the nominative and accusative of the second declen¬
sion after m consonant and in aequos ; os for or in nomina¬
tives of the third declension; ti for i in such words as
lubet and in all superlatives; 0 for e in such words as
dtvorsus, o for u in such words as volgtis. Assimilation
of consonants has been observed practically everywhere,
except in words compounded with ad. The traditional
principles of syllabification have been followed.

In the marking of quantities before gn, the results of the
investigations of Professors Buck and Bennett have been
adopted to some extent, but the long vowel has been re¬
tained not only in all words derived from stems with a
long vowel, but also in those words which furnish inscrip-
tional evidence of a long vowel, as stgnum and kindred
words, dignus and kindred words. In writing short vowels
in both the genitive and the dative of such words as huius,
kuic, cuiusy cut, eiuSy etc., I have departed from established
usage, especially in the case of the genitive.

In the preparation of the volume an effort has been
made to help the student to an appreciation of Sallust as
an author.    In the introduction his peculiarities in archaic