The Fragments of the Histories

are preserved. But I shall set these aside for now; I will treat those questions now, so as to lay, as it were, the foundations for a future edition.

And first, indeed, it must be inquired what matters the histories of Sallust contained in total. But Kritz has already dealt with this matter, who demonstrated 1) Prolegomena, p. 18. that Sallust began his narrative from the year 78 2) Cf. fragment I 1. D: "I have composed the history of the Roman people from the consulship of M. Lepidus and Q. Catulus, and the events that followed at home and in war."; however, since we know that he treated Roman affairs for 'twelve years' 3) Cf. Ausonius, loc. cit. Whether the histories were actually completed by Sallust or whether he intended at the beginning to weave the narrative even further will be discussed below., he extended the histories up to the year 66 B.C. And it has long been agreed that the same is evident from the fragments. Now let us see what resources might be of use to us! And indeed, the events performed during those twelve years have already been so established by our great historians Drumann, Mommsen, and Neumann that we rarely need to treat those historical questions ourselves. Furthermore, Schlimmer has dealt with the events of the years 78–71. 4) "The history of the events which Sallust explained in the lost books of his histories," dissertation (Utrecht 1860), compiled not without labor, yet with remarkable stupidity. Next, learned men have already debated a great deal concerning the sources of the writers; therefore, before we attend to individual points, we must look around to see which opinions have hitherto been put forth regarding the writers who handed down anything to memory about those twelve years, and which of these are to be approved.

And indeed, concerning the sources of Appian, after it had been debated for a long time and in vain by learned men 5) For instance, Jordan, "On the sources of Appian in relating the Mithridatic wars" (diss. Göttingen 1872) and Lauer, "On the writers of the third Mithridatic war" (program, Wetzlar 1871) contended that the Mithridatica Mithridatic History was excerpted from Livy; Klebs, "On the writers of the Sullan age" (diss. Berlin 1876) and Kuyper, "On the sources of Plutarch and Appian in the Life of Sulla," had asserted the same concerning the first book of the Bella Civilia Civil Wars. Even before that, Wijnne, "On the faith and authority of Appian" (1855) p. 10, had attributed this book to Posidonius along with Livy. Against these, Arnold, in Annals of Philology suppl. XIII (1884) p. 79 sqq., had assumed that the earlier Mithridatic wars flowed from Posidonius, the third from Theophanes of Mytilene, and the first book of the Civil Wars from Posidonius or Strabo. In the remaining books of the Civil Wars, he posited a Greek author...—recently that which is the only