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==References == | <p> Roman historian, born at Amiternum, in the territory of the Sabines, and attained the quæstorship and the tribunate, though a plebeian; for a misdemeanour was expelled the Senate; joined Cæsar's party in the Civil War, and became governor of Numidia; enriched himself by extortions, and returned to Rome a rich man, and gave himself to literature; wrote the "Catiline Conspiracy," and the "War with Jugurtha," among other works, in a terse and forcible style, and was the precursor of Livy and Tacitus; as a writer he affects the moralist, though he lived in vice (86-35 B.C.). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_79209"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/sallust Sallust from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_79209"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/sallust Sallust from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:57, 15 October 2021
Sallust [1]
Roman historian, born at Amiternum, in the territory of the Sabines, and attained the quæstorship and the tribunate, though a plebeian; for a misdemeanour was expelled the Senate; joined Cæsar's party in the Civil War, and became governor of Numidia; enriched himself by extortions, and returned to Rome a rich man, and gave himself to literature; wrote the "Catiline Conspiracy," and the "War with Jugurtha," among other works, in a terse and forcible style, and was the precursor of Livy and Tacitus; as a writer he affects the moralist, though he lived in vice (86-35 B.C.).
