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Historian - Sallust

C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (c. 86-55 B.C.) best known for his monographs about the Jugurthine War and the Catilinarian Conspiracy.

Sallust

Short entry on Sallust.

Sallust

Profile of Sallust, a Roman politician and historian.

Introduction to the Latin Text of Sallust

1848 introduction, by C. G. Zumpt, to the Latin text of Sallust De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino.

Conspiracy of Catiline

An etext of an English translation of Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline, translated by John Selby Watson.

Jugurthine War

An etext of an English translation of Sallust's Jugurthine War, translated by John Selby Watson.

Sempronia, a revolutionary. Rome, 1st cent. B.C.

Passage from Sallust demonstrating that "Catiline's supporter Sempronia egregiously lacks the qualities for which virtuous Roman matrons are celebrated, but possesses others."

Syntactical Compendium for Sallust's Bellum Catilinae

Lists the more than 115 Idioms and miscellaneous, 400 genitival phrases, 590 prepositional phrases, 600 subordinate clauses, 180 adjectival phrases, 55 gerunds and gerundives, 60 ablative absolutes, 130 ablative phrases, and 140 infinitive with the accusative constructions.

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