20 PREFACE. 



touching the adverse party, a word or two may be here 

 admitted. 



In appreciating the authority of Sallust's sentiments on the 

 subject of field-sports, as given in the studied preface of his 

 Bell. Catal.c.i. Catihnarian War, " Non fuit consilium socordia atque de- 

 sidia bonum otium conterere : neque vero, agrum colendo, 

 aut venando, servilibus officiis intentum, setatem agere ; " we 

 should remark the ambitious tone of pretended philosophy in 

 which the introduction is written : " Nostra omnis vis in 

 animo, et corpore sita est. Animi imperio, corporis servitio 

 magis utimur ; alteram nobis cum Diis, alteram cum belluis 

 commune est." And that this distinction between mental and 



bius Hist. h. XXXI. Jul. Pollux Onomast. L. v. Preefat. Commodo. — Cicero de 

 Nat. D. L. II. de OflBciis L. i. Horat. L. i. Epist. xviii. Virgil. iEneid. L. vii. ix. 

 Seneca de Provid. c. ii. Plinii Panegyr. Traj. D. — Justin. Hist. Epit. L. xxxvii. 

 Symmach. Epist. L. v. Ep. 66. 



It will be readily ceded that the amatory expostulation of Sulpitia to her dear 

 Clierinthus, 



Tiliiilli Eleg. L. Sed procul abducit venandi devia cura 



'^'* ^* O pereant sylvae, deficiantque canes! 



Quis furor est, quae mens, densos indagine colles 



Claudentera teneras ijedere velle nianus ? 



Quidve juvat furtim latebras intrare ferarum, 



Candidaque hamatis crura notare rubis? 



and the epistle of Ausonius to the ruralist Theon, 



Ausonii Epist. Sed tu parce feris venatibus, et fuge nota 



'v- 39. Criraina sylvarum : ne sis CinyreVa proles, 



Accedasque iterum Veneri plorandus Adonis; 



are too jocular to place I'ibullus and the poet of Bourdeaux on the side of the Cati- 

 linariau historian. 



