John Selby Watson

Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius (1853) John Selby Watson

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Contributor Bio:  Watson, John Selby Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (86 BC - c. 35 BC) was a Roman historian, politician, and novus homo from a well-known plebeian family. Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, and was a popularis, opposer of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar. Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have Catiline's War (about the conspiracy in 63 BCE of L. Sergius Catilina), The Jugurthine War (about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE), and the Histories (of which only fragments survive). Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian Thucydides, and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Africa.