He has now done with Monk; he knows that the suggestions have taken no effect in that quarter, perhaps have been rebuffed; he will therefore dedicate them afresh to the people at large, for whom they were first written.

The translation, accordingly, may run definitely thus:-- "This advice we have given Sulla himself: 'tis for the People now." In one or two of the added passages, or modifications of phraseology, we note reference to the course of events since the publication of the former edition.

Compare, for example, the following portion of the prefatory paragraph with the corresponding portion of the same paragraph as it first stood (p.

645):-- ...

"I thought best not to suppress what I had written, hoping that it may now be of much more use and concernment to be freely published in the midst of our elections to a Free Parliament, or their sitting to consider freely of the Government; whom it behoves to have all things represented to them that may direct their judgment therein: and I never read of any state, scarce of any tyrant, grown so incurable as to refuse counsel from any in a time of public deliberation, much less to be offended.