Sallust
historical figure · 4 works · 9 mentions · 11 anchored passages · author page · cited 8 times in 4 works
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman historian cited for a fragment containing a Tribune's speech.
Sallust in one of his fragments, has made a Tribune, in his harangue to the people, say, “As a final settlement of all discussions, I demand restitution according to the law of nations.
The Senate of Rome, we are informed by Sallust, judged very properly in passing a decree, that no treaty could be made without their consent and that of the people.
Jugurtha’s ambassadors too, as Sallust informs us, were ordered to leave Italy within the space of ten days, unless they came with offers from that prince to surrender himself, and his kingdom.
Letters to Lucilius
Roman historian whose terse, elliptical stylistic mannerisms became a model imitated (and overused) by Lucius Arruntius.
What in Sallust were rare, in this man are frequent and almost continuous, and not without cause;
Lucius Arruntius, a man of rare frugality, who wrote a history of the Punic War, was a Sallustian and strove toward that kind.
Sallust said "with the waters wintering.
On Benefits
Roman historian quoted for a maxim about speaking carefully of important matters
1 Of all the matters we have handled, Aebutius Liberalis, none can seem so necessary, or, as Sallust says, so to be spoken of with care, as that which is now in hand:
De Anima
Roman historian cited for characterizations of national temperament.
Sallust strikes the Moors as vain and the Dalmatians as fierce;