Sallust
Catiline and the Jugurthine War
Translated by John Selby Watson, 1852
What this is
Two short histories of a republic rotting from inside: Catiline’s plot to seize Rome in 63 BC, and Rome’s war with the Numidian king Jugurtha, who bought senators until he could not. Sallust was a schoolbook for centuries.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
Headings this transcription lacks
Book I: 32; Book II: 13. In each case the text is not missing — it runs on inside the chapter before it, because the heading did not survive the transcription. Nothing has been supplied.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.