FLORUS, AND VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, LITERALLY TRANSLATED, WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND A GENERAL INDEX. BY THE REV. JOHN SELBY WATSON, M.A., HEAD MASTER OF THE PROPRIETARY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, STOCKWELL -48823 NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 329 & 331 PEARL STREET. HARPER & Botarre will send either of the above works by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price. In this volume are presented English Translations of the three Roman Historians, Sallust, Florus, and Velleius Paterculus. me, 66 SALLUST," an eminent scholar once remarked to "it is more easy to dilute than to transmute." It is hoped that in the following pages the reader will find Sallust's Latin transmuted into English without any unnecessary dilution. Some minor liberties have been taken with his expressions, in order to avoid stiffness, and to represent the author fairly in an English dress; but none inconsistent with a faithful adherence to his sense. On all difficult or disputed passages, the commentators have been carefully consulted. References have been given in the notes, wherever they appeared necessary, as well to the older critics, of whom Cortius is the chief, as to the more recent, among whom the principal are Gerlach, Kritz, and Dietsch. All the Fragments of Sallust that can be of any interest to the English reader, have been translated; and that nothing might be wanting to render the work complete, versions of the spurious Epistles to Cæsar, |