The Fragments of the Histories

Madvig 1) "Small Writings" p. 398. Francken also defended the false opinion of the Bonn editors concerning the age of Licinianus in annal. phil. suppl. III p. 251, but cf. Comparetti in Mus. Rhen. XIII p. 457. — Klebs l. l. p. 5 maintains that Livy is the source of Granius regarding the Sullan age. noticed that Granius Licinianus, whose fragments preserved from his annals pertain to the sedition of Lepidus, almost always drew from Livy. But from the death of Sulla, he seems to have followed Sallust; for when he says 2) p. 42 A, 18.: 'Sallust's work occurs to us, but we, as we have intended, will omit delays and non-urgent matters,' he himself testifies that he consulted Sallust, nor does he reject him entirely, but wishes to omit only his 'delays', which he indeed lists shortly after (namely, assemblies, geographical descriptions, mountains, rivers). Then Granius continues in his narration: 'But ⟨together⟩ the tribunes of the plebs compelled the consuls to restore the tribunician power, the former Lepidus refused; and in the assembly a great part assented to him saying that it was not useful for the tribunician power to be restored. And the oration exists.' If that man of the second century says that the oration of Lepidus exists, he surely cannot mean any other than the most famous oration of Lepidus faked by Sallust. 5) Jordan in Herm. VI p. 213 thinks he had in mind a genuine oration of Lepidus. But that was never written down and handed to memory, nor, if it had been, could it have been preserved for so long. Nor would I think that the event itself, which Granius narrates, contradicts Sallust 6) Which Linker wanted in annal. phil. LXXVII p. 639.; for the attempt to restore the tribunician power had not yet been undertaken by Lepidus at that time, nor does Sallust remember that matter in the oration given by Lepidus against Sulla. It is, however, the error of Granius that he confused the oration given by Lepidus at the beginning of his consulship, which he had truly seen existing in Sallust, with this assembly of Lepidus after Sulla had died. But so that it may be more proven that Sallust was the source of Granius from this point on, p. 42 B, 23 must be compared: 'And he promised many other things: to bring back exiles, to overturn the deeds done by Sulla 2) 'Rescind' ed. Bonn., which exceeds the space., to restore those in whose lands he had settled soldiers' and Exuperantius p. 3, 22: 'Having gathered those into whose possessions Sulla the victor had inserted new colonists from his own soldiers, he gathered a huge army by promising, if they were victorious, that he would restore their ancestral property'; then Granius p. 44, A, 8: 'they defended, because the rustic crowd 3) 'UiNGUS' was read in the codex; I corrected it. and those driven from their homes 4) ACREO was seen in the codex, I conjectured '⟨ext⟩orre eo', cf. Sall. Iug. 14. had been gathered there', and Sallust fr. I. 46 D 'A great force of men had gathered, driven from their lands or cast out from the state'; finally Granius p. 44, A. 11: 'And the consuls having been given an army ⟨set out into⟩ 5) I supplied this. Etruria', and Sallust fr. I. 44 D: 'That Lepidus and Catulus should set out as soon as possible with their decreed armies.'