Sallust

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, known as Sallust, was a Roman historian and politician born around 86 BC in Amiternum, in the Sabine country of central Italy. He came from a plebeian family, not the old Roman nobility. He entered politics in Rome and was a tribune of the plebs in 52 BC. In 50 BC he was expelled from the Senate by the censor Appius Claudius Pulcher. He joined the side of Julius Caesar in the civil war, commanded troops, and was later made governor of the province of Africa Nova. On his return he faced charges of corruption and extortion and escaped conviction, it is said, only through Caesar's influence. He retired from public life after Caesar's murder in 44 BC and laid out the famous Gardens of Sallust on Rome's Quirinal Hill. There he wrote history. The Conspiracy of Catiline describes a plot to seize power in Rome in 63 BC, and The Jugurthine War tells of Rome's war against Jugurtha, a king of Numidia in Africa. Both stress what Sallust saw as the decline of Roman morals. He died around 35 BC.

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