Кажется, все же нашел кое-какие цитаты из своего прежнего поста.
We should, I think, consider the possibility that a first draft of the
Catiline was prepared in the late summer of 50 as part of Sallust's cam-
paign for recovery of the senatorial dignity. Sallust was a slow composer,
apparently; but it need not have taken long to write, especially as by
common consent it does not bear the marks of long and arduous research,
and it may, in its first form, have been shorter than it is now. It need
not be supposed that it ever saw general publication (здесь и далее курсив мой -Павел); I suggest that we
should give full value to Sallust's words: a quo incepto studioque me
ambitio mala detinuerat eodem regressus (4.2) (вернувшись к тому же начинанию и склонности своей молодости, от которых меня когда-то отвлекло дурное честолюбие). He had not only been in-
terested in history, he had begun to write it; he had been diverted by
ambition, and was now beginning again precisely where he had left off.
The original work, I suggest, was prepared to be used as election material
for the consular elections in the summer of 49, as part of a normal, pacific
political campaign, in Caesar's interest. Caesar's actions at this time give
a strong impression that this is what he would have preferred, and till
the very end of the year, there were good prospects that he might attain
it. By the end of the year, the rapid movement of events had sidetracked
Sallust's literary activity. As the prospect of armed conflict increased,
the propaganda value of the pamphlet diminished, and before long both
Caesar and Sallust had much more pressing matters to think of.
We should, I think, consider the possibility that a first draft of the
Catiline was prepared in the late summer of 50 as part of Sallust's cam-
paign for recovery of the senatorial dignity. Sallust was a slow composer,
apparently; but it need not have taken long to write, especially as by
common consent it does not bear the marks of long and arduous research,
and it may, in its first form, have been shorter than it is now. It need
not be supposed that it ever saw general publication (здесь и далее курсив мой -Павел); I suggest that we
should give full value to Sallust's words: a quo incepto studioque me
ambitio mala detinuerat eodem regressus (4.2) (вернувшись к тому же начинанию и склонности своей молодости, от которых меня когда-то отвлекло дурное честолюбие). He had not only been in-
terested in history, he had begun to write it; he had been diverted by
ambition, and was now beginning again precisely where he had left off.
The original work, I suggest, was prepared to be used as election material
for the consular elections in the summer of 49, as part of a normal, pacific
political campaign, in Caesar's interest. Caesar's actions at this time give
a strong impression that this is what he would have preferred, and till
the very end of the year, there were good prospects that he might attain
it. By the end of the year, the rapid movement of events had sidetracked
Sallust's literary activity. As the prospect of armed conflict increased,
the propaganda value of the pamphlet diminished, and before long both
Caesar and Sallust had much more pressing matters to think of.
