56. Q. What English writers have written brilliant imitative satires with
the essential spirit of Horace and Juvenal? A. Dryden, Pope and Johnson.
57. Q. To whom may be attributed the merit of being the founder or former
of Latin prose? A. Cato, the Censor.
58. Q. Who among the Romans, with Demosthenes among Greeks, reigns alone
as one of the two undisputedly greatest masters of human speech that have
ever appeared on the planet? A. Cicero.
59. Q. Who among Romans were eminent writers of history for Rome? A.
Cato, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus.
60. Q. In what age, and by whom, was the great epic of Rome produced? A.
The Æneid, in the age of Augustus, by Virgil.
61. Q. Who by eminence was the Roman poet of society and manners? A.
Horace.
62. Q. What is any Latin Reader, like any Greek, pretty sure to contain?
A. Its share of fables, of anecdotes, of historical fragments, of
mythology, and of biography.
63. Q. What revived plan of making up Latin Readers is among the late
changes in fashion introduced by classical teachers? A. Of making up
Latin Readers that consist exclusively of selections credited to standard
Latin authors.
64. Q. What two writers sometimes find a place in these Latin Readers,
that are sometimes wholly omitted in the course of Latin literature
accomplished by the college graduate? A. Sallust and Ovid.
65. Q. What three historical works did Sallust write? A. The “Conspiracy
of Catiline,” the “Jugurthine War,” and a “History of Rome from the death
of Sulla to the Mithridatic War.”
66. Q. In the midst of what was the residence Sallust occupied in Rome?
A. In the midst of grounds laid out and beautified by him with the most
lavish magnificence.
67. Q. What did these grounds subsequently become, and what name do they
still bear? A. They subsequently became the chosen resort of the Roman
emperors, and they still bear the name of the Gardens of Sallust.
68. Q. With what is Sallust’s “Jugurthine War” commenced? A. With a sort
of moral essay, or homily, not having the least particular relations to
the subject about to be treated.
69. Q. What is the subject of the “Jugurthine War”? A. The war which the
Roman people carried on with Jugurtha, king of the Numidians.
70. Q. What are the names of three Romans who took prominent part in the
Jugurthine war? A. Metellus, Marius and Sulla.
71. Q. With what did the war end? A. With the capture of Jugurtha by the
Romans through the treachery of Bocchus, his father-in-law.