other two so misliked by _Quint_: And yet is that word also in _Varro_, speaking of Oxen thus, _boues ad victimas faciunt, atque ad Deorum supplicia_: and a few old wordes mo. Read _Saluste_ and _Tullie_ aduisedly together: and in wordes ye shall finde small difference: yea _Salust_ is more geuen to new wordes, than to olde, though som olde writers say the contrarie: as _Claritudo_ for _Gloria_: _exactè_ for _perfectè_: _Facundia_ for _eloquentia_. Thies two last wordes _exactè_ and _facundia_ now in euery mans mouth, be neuer (as I do remember) vsed of _Tullie_, and therefore I thinke they be not good: For surely _Tullie_ speaking euery where so moch of the matter of eloquence, would not so precisely haue absteyned from the word _Facundia_, if it had bene good: that is proper for the tong, & common for mens vse. I could be long, in reciting many soch like, both olde & new wordes in _Salust_: but in very dede neyther oldnes nor newnesse of wordes maketh the greatest difference // The cause why betwixt _Salust_ and _Tullie_, but first strange phrases // Salust is not made of good Latin wordes, but framed after the // like Tully. Greeke tonge, which be neyther choisly borowed of them, nor properly vsed by him: than, a hard composition and crooked framing of his wordes and sentences, as a man would say, English talke placed and framed outlandish like. As for example first in phrases, _nimius et animus_ be two vsed wordes, yet _homo nimius animi_, is an vnused phrase. _Vulgus, et amat, et fieri_, be as common and well known wordes, as may be in the Latin tong, yet _id quod vulgò amat fieri_, for _solet fieri_, is but a strange and grekish kind of writing. _Ingens et vires_ be proper wordes, yet _vir ingens virium_ is an vnproper kinde of speaking and so be likewise, {_æger consilij._ {_promptissimus belli._ {_territus animi._ and many soch like phrases in _Salust_, borowed as I sayd not choisly out of Greeke, and vsed therefore vnproperlie in Latin. Againe, in whole sentences, where the matter is good, the wordes proper and plaine, yet the sense is hard and darke, and namely in his prefaces and orations, wherein he vsed most labor, which fault is likewise in _Thucydides_ in Greeke, of whom _Salust_ hath taken the greatest part of his darkenesse. For 300 _The second booke teachyng_