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sdi ([personal profile] sdi) wrote 2021-12-16 12:25 am (UTC)

You're correct, of course! You'll please forgive me if I seem a little salty about it :)

To your latter point, I see many footnotes in all three translations noting, helpfully, where other authors agree and disagree with Sallustius, too. A good example is back in ch. IV: Sallustius says that only a madman would treat, for example, corn as literally the material manifestation of Osiris. (I assume he's lashing out at the Christians over the doctrine of transubstantiation?) I frankly quite disagree with Sallustius, and Murray helpfully notes that Julian—a close associate of Sallustius!—disagrees in exactly the same manner as I do.

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