Sallusta. Barbou Classica Opera.

Printed: 1774

Publisher: Barbou. Paris

Dimensions 10 × 16 × 3 cm
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Language: Latin

Size (cminches): 10 x 16 x 3

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Tan leather binding. Red and green title plates with gilt lettering on the spine.

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Sallust (86 B.C.E – 35 B.C.E.) was a Roman politician who later became an historian. He was born c. 86 B.C.E., in Amiternum near modern L’Aquila (56 miles from Rome). In 52 B.C.E. he was elected a tribune, but was expelled from the Senate two years later due to his actions against Cicero and Milo. Sallust joined Julius Caesar and commanded a legion in 49, and was appointed the first governor of Africa Nova. Caesar’s assassination in 44 changed the course of Sallust’s life, and he shifted away from politics to focused solely on historical and political writing. He died c. 35 B.C.E., having lived the remainder of his life away from the public eye.

C. Sallustii Crispi Opera Omnia quae Extant is a compilation of several of Sallust’s works including the famous “War Against Catiline” and “The Jugurthine War” (or “War Against Jugurtha”). The “War Against Caitiline” concerned the second Catilinarian Conspiracy of 65 B.C.E, a plot devised by the Roman Senator Catiline along with other aristocrats to overthrow the Roman Senate. Sallust characterized Caitiline as a symbol of the moral decline of Rome. “The Jugurthine War” also emphasized moral decline through the lens of the Roman conquest of the Numidian King, Jugurtha.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family. Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines and was a popularis, an opponent of the old Roman aristocracy, throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar. Sallust is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Catiline’s War (about the conspiracy in 63 BC of L. Sergius Catilina), The Jugurthine War (about Rome’s war against the Numidian King Jugurtha from 111 to 105 BC), and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) are still extant. Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian Thucydides and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Africa.

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