Gaius Sallustius Crispus, known in English as Sallust, was a Roman historian and politician of the late Republic who lived from about 86 to about 35 BC. He came from a plebeian family and was probably born at Amiternum in the Sabine country. He sided with Julius Caesar and later governed the province of Africa, where he gained great wealth by improper means. He is the earliest Latin-language Roman historian whose works survive under his name. His complete monographs are the Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War, and his Histories survive only in fragments. As a writer he took the Greek historian Thucydides as his chief model.
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust ( , SAL-əst; c. 86 – c. 35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust ( , SAL-əst; c. 86, c. 35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic
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He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian
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