Two short histories of a republic rotting from inside: Catiline’s plot to seize Rome in 63 BC, and Rome’s war with the Numidian king Jugurtha, who bought senators until he could not. Sallust was a schoolbook for centuries.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with Catiline and the Jugurthine War that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: John Selby Watson, 1852. Source: Gutenberg 7990.
The text here is John Selby Watson’s literal translation, Bohn’s Classical Library, 1852, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 7990. His notes are not printed.
Two chapter headings are missing from this transcription, Catiline 32 and Jugurtha 13; the text is not missing but runs on inside the chapter before it.
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