Sallust (86-c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom
complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger
contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline's
War tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc led by L. Sergius Catilina,
who plotted to assassinate numerous senators and take control of
the government, but was thwarted by Cicero. Sallust's vivid account
of Roman public life shows a Republic in decline, prey to moral
corruption and internal strife. In The Jugurthine War he describes
Rome's fight in Africa against the king of the Numidians from 111
to 105 bc, and provides a damning picture of the Roman aristocracy.
Also included in this volume are the major surviving extracts from
Sallust's now fragmentary Histories, depicting Rome after the death
of the dictator Sulla.
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