Barclay - Sallust's Jugurthine War. The famous cronycle of the warre which the romayns had agaynst iugurth, usurper of the kyngdome of numidy - Alexander Barclay's Translation of Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum.

sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Alexander Barclay ( c.1476-1552 ) is best known as the author of the English verse Ship of Fools and Eclogues. In 1522 he published a prose translation of the Roman historian Sallust�s Bellum Jugurthinum, an account of the war between the Roman state and Jugurtha, King of Numidia. Barclay expanded his source to include explanations for the benefit of his non-scholarly audience: his patron Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and other English gentlemen. He drew heavily on two printed commentaries on Sallust�s text, those of Chrysostomus Soldus ( published in 1495 ) , and of the Parisian printer and scholar, Badius Ascensius ( published in 1504 ), weaving their explanatory material into his translation. There is a full presentation of Barclay�s use of these sources in the explanatory notes and apparatus to the text. -- This is the first modern critical edition of this text, one of the first translations of a classical text into English. It is accompanied by a full Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and Glossary. ISBN 9780199688197