his
class who endeavoured to trace the causes of events, instead of
contenting himself with a bare statement of facts. L. CORNELIUS SISENNA
(119-67), legate of Pompey in the war against the pirates, lost his life
in an expedition against Crete. He wrote twenty-three books on the
period between the Social War and the dictatorship of Sulla. His work
was commended by Sallust (_Jugurtha_, 95), who, however, blames him for
not speaking out sufficiently. Cicero remarks upon his fondness for
archaisms (_Brutus_, 74. 259). Sisenna also translated the tales of
Aristides of Miletus, and is supposed by some to have written a
ccmmentary on Plautus. The autobiography of Sulla may also be mentioned.

See C.W. Nitzsch, _Die romische Annalistik_ (1873); H. Peter, _Zur
Kritik der Quellen der dlteren romischen Geschichte_ (1879); L.O.
Brocker, _Moderne Quellenforscher und antike Geschichtschreiber_
(1882); fragments in H. Peter, _Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae_
(1870, 1906), and _Historicorum Romanorum Fragmenta_ (1883); also
articles ROME, _History_ (ancient) _ad fin_., section "Authorities,'"
and LIVY, where the use made of the annalists by the historian is
discussed; Pauly-Wissowa, _Realencydopadie_, art. "Annales"; the
histories of Roman Literature by M. Schanz and Teuffel-Schwabe;
Mommsen, _Hist. of Rome_ (Eng. tr.), bk. ii. ch. 9, bk. iii. ch. 14,
bk. iv. ch. 13, bk. v. ch. 12; C. Wachsmuth, _Einleitung in das
Studium der alien Geschichte_ (1895); H. Peter, bibliography of the
subject in Bursian's _Jahresbericht_, cxxvi. (1906). (J. H. F.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] He is not to be confused with L. Cincius, the author of various
political and antiquarian treatises (_de Fastis, de Comitiis, de
Priscis Verbis_), who lived in the Augustan age, to which period
Mommsen, considering them a later fabrication, refers the Greek
annals of L. Cincius Alimentus.

ANNALS (_Annales_, from _annus_, a year), a concise historical record in
which events are arranged chronologically, year by year. The chief
sources of information in regard to the annals of ancient Rome are two
passages in Cicero (_De Oratore_, ii. 12. 52) and in Servius (_ad Aen_.
i. 373) which have been the subject of much discussion. Cicero states
that from the earliest period down to the pontificate of Publius Mucius
Scaevola (c. 131 B.C.), it was usual for the pontifex maximus to record
on a white tablet (_album_), which was exh