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C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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but that afterwards there were no men of importance, or excelling
others by mental superiority, and that the state, as a whole, alone
made the faults of individuals bearable. We must honour the judgment
of Sallust, but cannot agree with it; we must rather believe that the
unvarying ability of the whole Roman people, notwithstanding the not
very prominent minds of individuals, was the cause of the rapid
progress of the Roman dominion. In the later times, on the other
hand, we meet a Scipio the younger, a Marius, a Sulla, a Pompey, and
a Caesar, all of whom were men or generals of eminent talent, while
all those who served under them were persons of inferior abilities.
[304] _Effeta parentum_, the same as _effeta parens_, 'a mother who has
had children, but can have no more.' Respecting the partitive
genitive (as in _aliqui militum_ for _aliqui milites_), see
Zumpt, S 430. The author in the progress of his sentence abandons the
construction with which he began, and which ought to have been
continued thus: _Roma haud sane quemquam virtute magnum protulit_,
for which he says, _Romae haud sane quisquam virtute magnus fuit_.
This deviation from the construction may be explained still more
easily, if in our mind we add _facit_ to the words _sicuti effeta
parentum_, 'as is the case with an aged mother.' _Multis
tempestatibus_, 'during a long time.' The singular _tempestas_ in the
sense of 'time' is not uncommon, but the plural _tempestates_ in the
sense of 'periods of time' occurs only in Sallust in this passage,
and _Jug_. 73, 96, and 108.
[305] _Quin_ is used regularly for _ut non_ after a negative clause:
'I would not pass them over in silence, without unfolding their
characters.'

54. Igitur his genus, aetas, eloquentia prope aequalia fuere; magnitudo
animi par, item gloria, sed alia alii.[306] Caesar beneficiis ac
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