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Excerpt from Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline: With an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes IN preparing a new edition Of Sallust for the press, the editor has taken the greatest care to make such alterations and improvements, in the work, as. May rendei' it a still more useful guide to the student than its predecessors have proved. The principal changes will be found to consist in a more enlarged commentary on the Jugurthine war, in the placing of this production of Sallust's before the narrative of the conspiracy of Catiline, and in the two Indexes, the one Geographical, the other Historical, which have been appended to the work. The enlargement of the notes on'the 111 a war has been made at the request of several instructors, who thought that a more mnple commentary on this part of the historian's labours was needed by their pupils. The change introduced into the body of the work, by placing the narrative Of the war with Jugurtha before the account of Catiline's conspiracy, cannot but meet with the approbation of all who lay claim to anyfl L 10. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.