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 style, pretends to be answering an attack made upon him in the senate by Cicero, and selects as the time of this event the year 54 The oration must have been published after Sallust's death. Quintilian looked upon it as genuine, and quotes from it several times.

That Sallust was not the author of the two suasoriae is clear from internal evidence; the extensive use of archaic forms suggests the period of Fronto and his school. Although the two pleas have much in common, both in language and in subject matter, they were probably not the work of the same writer. The Invective against Sallnst, although it purports to be a reply to the attack upon Cicero, does not observe the same time limits but covers the entire life of Sallust. It is probably an exercise from the schools of rhetoric, composed by a writer of small ability and inferior Latinity at a late period which cannot be determined with certainty.

The number of manuscripts of the Catiline and Jugurtha is very great, but comparatively few are of

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