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C. Crispi Sallustii De Catilinae Conjuratione Belloque Jugurthino Historiae
C Crispi Sallustii De Catilinae Conjuratione Belloque Jugurthino Historiae Author:Sallust General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Original Publisher: G.C.H. Carvill Subjects: Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C Rome History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When yo... more »u buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LIFE AND WRITINGS SALLUST.' " Sali. ust has generally been considered as the first among the Romans who merited the title of historian. This celebrated writer was born at Amiternum, in the territory of the Sabines, in the year of Rome 663. He received his education in the latter city, and, in his early youth, appears to have been desirous to devote himself to literary pursuits. But it was not easy for one residing in the capital to escape the contagious desire of military or political distinction. He obtained the situation of Qusstor, which entitled him to a seat in the Senate, at the age of twenty-seven ; and about six years afterwards he was elected Tribune of the commons. While in this office, he attached himself to the fortunes of Cffisar, and along with one of his colleagues, conducted the prosecution against Miio for the murder of Clodius. In the year of the city 704, he was excluded from the Senate, on the pretext ot immoral conduct, but more probably from the violence of the patrician party, to which he was opposed. Aulus Gellius, on the authority of Varro's treatise, Pius aut de Pace, informs us that he incurred this disgrace in consequence of an intrigue with Fausta, the wife of Milo, who caused him to be scourged by his slaves. t It has been doubted, however, by modern crities, whether it was the historian Sallust who was thus punished, or his nephew Cris- pus Sallustius, to whom Horace has addressed the second ode of the second book. It seems, indeed, unlik...« less