Sallust was Milton’s favourite Roman historian, and the moralizing proemium to his De Coniuratione Catilinae has been convincingly identified as an influence on Milton’s writing.1¹ It would not be surprising, then, that the equally sententious proemium of Sallust’s only other complete work, the De Bello Iugurthino, should also influence him. In Book 8 of Paradise Lost, Adam and Raphael’s discussion of the moral and psychological dimensions of sexuality evokes, among other classical allusions, Sallust’s De Bello Iugurthino 1.4, a debt that has gone unnoted in commentary on the passage.2²

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失落的天堂中的萨卢斯主义者自然与道德观，第8书

萨卢斯特是米尔顿最喜欢的罗马历史学家和道德说教proemium他的德Coniuratione Catilinae已经令人信服地确定为米尔顿的writing.1的影响¹这也不足为奇，那么，萨卢斯特的唯一其他完整的工作同样简洁的proemium中，De Bello Iugurthino，也应该影响他。在书8失乐园，性欲唤起，其他典故中的道德和心理层面的亚当和拉斐尔的讨论，萨卢斯特的德·贝洛Iugurthino 1.4，已在转眼评上unnoted的passage.2债务²