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                            <p>C. SALLUSTII CRISPI</p>
                            <p>BELLUM CATILINARIUM.</p>
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                            <p>C. SALLUSTII CRISPI</p>
                            <p>BELLUM CATILINARIUM.</p>
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                        <entry>Omnes1 homines, qui sese student2 praestare ceteris animalibus, summa
                            ope3 niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura
                            prona4 atque ventri obedientia finxit. Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et
                            corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum
                            nobis cum dis,5 alterum cum beluis6 commune est. Quo mihi rectius
                            videtur ingenii quam virium opibus gloriam quaerere et, quoniam vita
                            ipsa qua fruimur brevis est, memoriam nostri7 quam maxime longam8
                            efficere. Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est,
                            virtus clara aeternaque habetur. Sed diu magnum inter mortales certamen
                            fuit,9 vine corporis an virtute animi res militaris magis procederet.
                            Nam et prius quam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto
                            opus est.10 Ita utrumque per se indigens, alterum alterius auxilio
                            eget.</entry>
                        <entry> It becomes all men, who desire to excel other animals, to strive, to
                            the utmost of their power, not to pass through life in obscurity, like
                            the beasts of the field, which nature has formed groveling and
                            subservient to appetite. All our power is situate in the mind and in the
                            body. Of the mind we rather employ the government; of the body, the
                            service. The one is common to us with the gods; the other with the
                            brutes. It appears to me, therefore, more reasonable to pursue glory by
                            means of the intellect than of bodily strength, and, since the life
                            which we enjoy is short, to make the remembrance of us as lasting as
                            possible. For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable;
                            that of intellectual power is illustrious and immortal. Yet it was long
                            a subject of dispute among mankind, whether military efforts were more
                            advanced by strength of body, or by force of intellect. For, in affairs
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                            insufficient of itself, the one requires the assistance of the
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                        <entry>Igitur<fn>Some footnote</fn> initio reges (nam in terris nomen
                            imperii id primum fuit), diversi pars[12] ingenium, alii corpus
                            exercebant; etiamtum vita hominum sine cupiditate agitabatur, sua cuique
                            satis placebant. Postea vero quam[13] in Asia Cyrus, in Graecia
                            Lacedaemonii et Athenienses coepere urbes atque nationes subigere;
                            libidinem dominandi causam belli habere, maximam gloriam in maximo
                            imperio putare, tum demum periculo atque negotiis compertum est in bello
                            plurimum ingenium posse. Quodsi[14] regum atque imperatorum animi
                            virtus[15] in pace ita ut in bello valeret, aequabilius atque
                            constantius sese res humanae haberent, neque aliud alio[16] ferri, neque
                            mutari ac misceri omnia cerneres. Nam imperium facile his artibus
                            retinetur, quibus initio partum est. Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro
                            continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul
                            cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque[17] a
                            minus bono transfertur. Quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant,
                            virtuti omnia parent. Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno,
                            indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere;[18] quibus
                            profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri fuit. Eorum ego
                            vitam mortemque juxta aestimo,[19] quoniam de utraque siletur. Verum
                            enimvero[20] is demum mihi vivere atque frui anima videtur, qui aliquo
                            negotio intentus[21] praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit.
                            Sed in magna copia rerum aliud alii natura iter ostendit.</entry>
                        <entry>In early times, accordingly, kings (for that was the first title of
                            sovereignty in the world) applied themselves in different ways; some
                            exercised the mind, others the body. At that period, however, the life
                            of man was passed without covetousness; every one was satisfied with his
                            own. But after Cyrus in Asia, and the Lacedaemonians and Athenians in
                            Greece, began to subjugate cities and nations, to deem the lust of
                            dominion a reason for war, and to imagine the greatest glory to be in
                            the most extensive empire, it was then at length discovered, by proof
                            and experience, that mental power has the greatest effect in military
                            operations. And, indeed, if the intellectual ability of kings and
                            magistrates were exerted to the same degree in peace as in war, human
                            affairs would be more orderly and settled, and you would not see
                            governments shifted from hand to hand, and things universally changed
                            and confused. For dominion is easily secured by those qualities by which
                            it was at first obtained. But when sloth has introduced itself in the
                            place of industry, and covetousness and pride in that of moderation and
                            equity, the fortune of a state is altered together with its morals; and
                            thus authority is always transferred from the less to the more
                            deserving. Even in agriculture, in navigation, and in architecture,
                            whatever man performs owns the dominion of intellect. Yet many human
                            beings, resigned to sensuality and indolence, uninstructed and
                            unimproved, have passed through life like travelers in a strange
                            country; to whom, certainly, contrary to the intention of nature, the
                            body was a gratification, and the mind a burden. Of these I hold the
                            life and death in equal estimations, for silence is maintained
                            concerning both. But he only, indeed, seems to me to live, and to enjoy
                            life, who, intent upon some employment, seeks reputation from some
                            ennobling enterprise, or honorable pursuit. But in the great abundance
                            of occupations, nature points out different paths to different
                            individuals.</entry>
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                        <entry>Pulcrum est bene facere rei publicae; etiam bene dicere haud absurdum
                            est;[22] vel pace vel bello clarum fieri licet; et qui fecere et qui
                            facta aliorum scripsere, multi laudantur. Ac mihi quidem,[23] tametsi
                            haudquaquam par gloria sequitur scriptorem et actorem rerum, tamen in
                            primis arduum videtur res gestas scribere; primum quod facta dictis
                            exaequanda sunt, dehinc quia plerique, quae delicta reprehenderis,
                            malivolentia et invidia dicta putant;[24] ubi de magna virtute atque
                            gloria bonorum memores, quae sibi quisque facilia factu putat, aequo
                            animo accipit, supra ea[25] veluti ficta pro falsis ducit. Sed ego[26]
                            adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum,
                            ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro
                            virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant. Quae tametsi animus
                            aspernabatur, insolens malarum artium,[27] tamen inter tanta vitia
                            imbecilla aetas ambitione corrupta tenebatur[28]: ac me, quum ab
                            reliquorum malis moribus dissentirem, nihilo minus honoris cupido eadem
                            qua ceteros fama atque invidia vexabat.[29]</entry>
                        <entry>To act well for the Commonwealth is noble, and even to speak well for
                            it is not without merits. Both in peace and in war it is possible to
                            obtain celebrity; many who have acted, and many who have recorded the
                            actions of others, receive their tribute of praise. And to me,
                            assuredly, though by no means equal glory attends the narrator and the
                            performer of illustrious deeds, it yet seems in the highest degree
                            difficult to write the history of great transactions; first, because
                            deeds must be adequately represented by words; and next, because most
                            readers consider that whatever errors you mention with censure, are
                            mentioned through malevolence and envy; while, when you speak of the
                            great virtue and glory of eminent men, every one hears with acquiescence
                            only that which he himself thinks easy to be performed; all beyond his
                            own conception he regards as fictitious and incredible.<p>I myself,
                                however, when a young man, was at first led by inclination, like
                                most others, to engage in political affairs; but in that pursuit
                                many circumstances were unfavorable to me; for, instead of modesty,
                                temperance, and integrity, there prevailed shamelessness,
                                corruption, and rapacity. And although my mind, inexperienced in
                                dishonest practice, detested these vices, yet, in the midst of so
                                great corruption, my tender age was ensnared and infected by
                                ambition; and though I shrunk from the vicious principles of those
                                around me, yet the same eagerness for honors, the same obloquy and
                                jealousy, which disquieted others, disquieted myself.</p></entry>
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	<entry>Omnes1 homines, qui sese student2 praestare ceteris animalibus, summa
	ope3 niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura
	prona4 atque ventri obedientia finxit. Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et
	corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum
	nobis cum dis,5 alterum cum beluis6 commune est. Quo mihi rectius
	videtur ingenii quam virium opibus gloriam quaerere et, quoniam vita
	ipsa qua fruimur brevis est, memoriam nostri7 quam maxime longam8
	efficere. Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est,
	virtus clara aeternaque habetur. Sed diu magnum inter mortales certamen
	fuit,9 vine corporis an virtute animi res militaris magis procederet.
	Nam et prius quam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto
	opus est.10 Ita utrumque per se indigens, alterum alterius auxilio
	eget.</entry>
	<entry> It becomes all men, who desire to excel other animals, to strive, to
	the utmost of their power, not to pass through life in obscurity, like
	the beasts of the field, which nature has formed groveling and
	subservient to appetite. All our power is situate in the mind and in the
	body. Of the mind we rather employ the government; of the body, the
	service. The one is common to us with the gods; the other with the
	brutes. It appears to me, therefore, more reasonable to pursue glory by
	means of the intellect than of bodily strength, and, since the life
	which we enjoy is short, to make the remembrance of us as lasting as
	possible. For the glory of wealth and beauty is fleeting and perishable;
	that of intellectual power is illustrious and immortal. Yet it was long
	a subject of dispute among mankind, whether military efforts were more
	advanced by strength of body, or by force of intellect. For, in affairs
	of war, it is necessary to plan before beginning to act, and, after
	planning, to act with promptitude and vigor. Thus, each being
	insufficient of itself, the one requires the assistance of the
	other.</entry>
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	<entry>Igitur<fn>Some footnote</fn> initio reges (nam in terris nomen
	imperii id primum fuit), diversi pars[12] ingenium, alii corpus
	exercebant; etiamtum vita hominum sine cupiditate agitabatur, sua cuique
	satis placebant. Postea vero quam[13] in Asia Cyrus, in Graecia
	Lacedaemonii et Athenienses coepere urbes atque nationes subigere;
	libidinem dominandi causam belli habere, maximam gloriam in maximo
	imperio putare, tum demum periculo atque negotiis compertum est in bello
	plurimum ingenium posse. Quodsi[14] regum atque imperatorum animi
	virtus[15] in pace ita ut in bello valeret, aequabilius atque
	constantius sese res humanae haberent, neque aliud alio[16] ferri, neque
	mutari ac misceri omnia cerneres. Nam imperium facile his artibus
	retinetur, quibus initio partum est. Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro
	continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul
	cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque[17] a
	minus bono transfertur. Quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant,
	virtuti omnia parent. Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno,
	indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere;[18] quibus
	profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri fuit. Eorum ego
	vitam mortemque juxta aestimo,[19] quoniam de utraque siletur. Verum
	enimvero[20] is demum mihi vivere atque frui anima videtur, qui aliquo
	negotio intentus[21] praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit.
	Sed in magna copia rerum aliud alii natura iter ostendit.</entry>
	<entry>In early times, accordingly, kings (for that was the first title of
	sovereignty in the world) applied themselves in different ways; some
	exercised the mind, others the body. At that period, however, the life
	of man was passed without covetousness; every one was satisfied with his
	own. But after Cyrus in Asia, and the Lacedaemonians and Athenians in
	Greece, began to subjugate cities and nations, to deem the lust of
	dominion a reason for war, and to imagine the greatest glory to be in
	the most extensive empire, it was then at length discovered, by proof
	and experience, that mental power has the greatest effect in military
	operations. And, indeed, if the intellectual ability of kings and
	magistrates were exerted to the same degree in peace as in war, human
	affairs would be more orderly and settled, and you would not see
	governments shifted from hand to hand, and things universally changed
	and confused. For dominion is easily secured by those qualities by which
	it was at first obtained. But when sloth has introduced itself in the
	place of industry, and covetousness and pride in that of moderation and
	equity, the fortune of a state is altered together with its morals; and
	thus authority is always transferred from the less to the more
	deserving. Even in agriculture, in navigation, and in architecture,
	whatever man performs owns the dominion of intellect. Yet many human
	beings, resigned to sensuality and indolence, uninstructed and
	unimproved, have passed through life like travelers in a strange
	country; to whom, certainly, contrary to the intention of nature, the
	body was a gratification, and the mind a burden. Of these I hold the
	life and death in equal estimations, for silence is maintained
	concerning both. But he only, indeed, seems to me to live, and to enjoy
	life, who, intent upon some employment, seeks reputation from some
	ennobling enterprise, or honorable pursuit. But in the great abundance
	of occupations, nature points out different paths to different
	individuals.</entry>
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	<entry>Pulcrum est bene facere rei publicae; etiam bene dicere haud absurdum
	est;[22] vel pace vel bello clarum fieri licet; et qui fecere et qui
	facta aliorum scripsere, multi laudantur. Ac mihi quidem,[23] tametsi
	haudquaquam par gloria sequitur scriptorem et actorem rerum, tamen in
	primis arduum videtur res gestas scribere; primum quod facta dictis
	exaequanda sunt, dehinc quia plerique, quae delicta reprehenderis,
	malivolentia et invidia dicta putant;[24] ubi de magna virtute atque
	gloria bonorum memores, quae sibi quisque facilia factu putat, aequo
	animo accipit, supra ea[25] veluti ficta pro falsis ducit. Sed ego[26]
	adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum,
	ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro
	virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant. Quae tametsi animus
	aspernabatur, insolens malarum artium,[27] tamen inter tanta vitia
	imbecilla aetas ambitione corrupta tenebatur[28]: ac me, quum ab
	reliquorum malis moribus dissentirem, nihilo minus honoris cupido eadem
	qua ceteros fama atque invidia vexabat.[29]</entry>
	<entry>To act well for the Commonwealth is noble, and even to speak well for
	it is not without merits. Both in peace and in war it is possible to
	obtain celebrity; many who have acted, and many who have recorded the
	actions of others, receive their tribute of praise. And to me,
	assuredly, though by no means equal glory attends the narrator and the
	performer of illustrious deeds, it yet seems in the highest degree
	difficult to write the history of great transactions; first, because
	deeds must be adequately represented by words; and next, because most
	readers consider that whatever errors you mention with censure, are
	mentioned through malevolence and envy; while, when you speak of the
	great virtue and glory of eminent men, every one hears with acquiescence
	only that which he himself thinks easy to be performed; all beyond his
	own conception he regards as fictitious and incredible.<p>I myself,
	however, when a young man, was at first led by inclination, like
	most others, to engage in political affairs; but in that pursuit
	many circumstances were unfavorable to me; for, instead of modesty,
	temperance, and integrity, there prevailed shamelessness,
	corruption, and rapacity. And although my mind, inexperienced in
	dishonest practice, detested these vices, yet, in the midst of so
	great corruption, my tender age was ensnared and infected by
	ambition; and though I shrunk from the vicious principles of those
	around me, yet the same eagerness for honors, the same obloquy and
	jealousy, which disquieted others, disquieted myself.</p></entry>
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