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In earlier life he was one of the circle of Catullus, and after Cicero's death was one of the chief friends of Atticus, of whom a brief biography, which he wrote after Atticus' death, is still extant. Unlike Sallust, Nepos never took part in public affairs, but carried on throughout a long life the part of a man of letters, honest and kindly, but without any striking originality or ability.
We possess but a small portion of his works, but the fragments which have come down to us show peculiar merit. He sought to penetrate the human heart, and to reveal the secret motives which actuate the conduct of men. The style of Sallust is brilliant, but his art is always apparent; he is clear and lively, but rhetorical.
'And I, too, said Sallust, drawing a square piece of papyrus from his girdle: 'I see that he asks us an hour earlier than usual: an earnest of something sumptuous. 'Oh! he is rich as Croesus, said Clodius; 'and his bill of fare is as long as an epic.
We are both born for better things than those in which we sympathize now born to render our worship in nobler temples than the stye of Epicurus. 'Alas! returned Sallust, in rather a melancholy tone, 'what do we know more than this life is short beyond the grave all is dark? There is no wisdom like that which says "enjoy". 'By Bacchus!
The slave hastened to inform the party that the scroll fastened to the cork betokened its birth from Chios, and its age a ripe fifty years. 'How deliciously the snow has cooled it! said Pansa. 'It is just enough. 'It is like the experience of a man who has cooled his pleasures sufficiently to give them a double zest, exclaimed Sallust.
Sallust tells us of Sempronia who was, indeed, a very bad female if all that he says of her be true that she danced more elegantly than became an honest woman. She was the wife of a Consul. But a male Roman of high standing might not dance at all. Cicero defends his friend by showing how impossible it was how monstrous the idea. "No man would dance unless drunk or mad."
It seems to be certain, that from the first moment of his reformation, he incessantly practised the industry which he so warmly recommends. He composed a History of Rome, of which nothing remains but a few fragments. Sallust, during his administration of Numidia, is said to have exercised great oppression.
The popular speech could never have risen to the complexity of the language of Cicero and Sallust. This was an artificial tongue, based indeed on the colloquial idiom, but admitting many elements borrowed from the Greek. If we compare the language and syntax of Plautus, who was a genuine popular writer, with that of Cicero in his more difficult orations, the difference will at once be felt.
I. The poetic diction of Tacitus, and its fabrication in the Annals. II. Florid passages in the Annals. III. Metrical composition of Bracciolini. VI. The language of other Roman writers, Livy, Quintus Curtius and Sallust. VII. The phrase "non modo ... sed", and other anomalous expressions, not Tacitus's. VIII. Words not used by Tacitus, distinctus and codicillus.
And the work which we collective children of God do, our grand centre of life, our city which we have builded for us to dwell in, is London! London, with its unutterable external hideousness, and with its internal canker of publice egestas, privatim opulentia, to use the words which Sallust puts into Cato's mouth about Rome, unequalled in the world!
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