[281] Slaves--of whom vast numbers, etc.--_Servitia--cujus magnae copiae_. "_Cujus_," says Priscian (xvii. 20, vol. ii., p. 81, cd. Krehl), "is referred _ad rem_, that is _cujus rei servitiorum_." _Servorum_ or _hominum genus_, is, perhaps, rather what Sallust had in his mind, as the subject of his relation. Gerlach adduces as an expression most nearly approaching to Sallust's, Thucyd., iii. 92; [Greek: _Kai dorieis, hae maetropolis ton Lakedaimonion_]. [282] Impolitic--_Alienum suis rationibus_. Foreign to his views; inconsistent with his policy. [283] LVII. In his hurried march into Gaul--_In Galliam properanti_. These words Cortius inclosed in brackets, pronouncing them as a useless gloss. But all editors have retained them as genuine, except the Bipont and Burnouf, who wholly omitted them. [284] As he was pursuing, though with a large army, yet through plainer ground, and with fewer hinderances; the enemy in retreat--_Utpote qui magna exercitu, locis aequioribus, expeditus, in fuga sequeretur_. It would be tedious to notice all that has been written upon this passage of Sallust. All the editions, before that of Cortius, had _expeditos, in fugam_, some joining _expeditos_ with _locis aequioribus_, and some with _in fugam_. _Expeditos in fugam_ was first condemned by Wasse, no negligent observer of phrases, who said that no expression parallel to it could be found in any Latin writer. Cortius, seeing that the _expedition_, of which Sallust is speaking, is on the part of Antonius, not of Catiline, altered _expeditos_, though found in all the manuscripts, into _expeditus_; and _in fugam_, at the same time, into _in fuga_; and in both these emendations he has been cordially followed by the subsequent editors, Gerlach, Kritzius, and Dietsch. I have translated _magno exercitu_, "_though_ with a large army," although, according to Dietsch and some others, we need not consider a large army as a cause of slowness, but may rather regard it as a cause of speed; since the more numerous were Metellus's forces, the less he would care how many he might leave behind through fatigue, or to guard the baggage; so that he might be the more _expeditus_, unincumbered. With _sequeretur_ we must understand _hostes_. The Bipont, Burnouf's, which often follows it, and Havercamp's, are now the only editions of any note that retain _expeditos in fugam_. [285] LVIII. That a spiritless army can not be rendered active, etc.--_Neque ex ignavo strenuum, neque fortem ex timido exercitum oratione imperatoris fieri_. I have departed a little from the literal reading, for the sake of ease. [286] That on your own right hands depend, etc.--_In dextris portare_. "That you carry in your right hands." [287] Those same places--_Eadem illa_. "Coloniae atque municipia portas claudent." _Burnouf_.