Sallust

[ sal-uhst ]

/ ˈsæl əst /

Save This Word!

noun

Caius Sallustius Crispus, 86–34 b.c., Roman historian.

QUIZ

WILL YOU SAIL OR STUMBLE ON THESE GRAMMAR QUESTIONS?

Smoothly step over to these common grammar mistakes that trip many people up. Good luck!

Question 1 of 7

Fill in the blank: I can’t figure out _____ gave me this gift.

who

whom

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Words nearby Sallust

sallee, sallenders, sallet, sallow, sallowy, Sallust, sally, Sally Army, sally lunn, sally port, salmagundi

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

How to use Sallust in a sentence

Sallust is ruthless and charming, a connoisseur of rare wines and rare women.
The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis|Tina Rosenberg|August 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
As happens in books like these, Sallust pretty much single-handedly wins the war.
The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis|Tina Rosenberg|August 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
As the war began, he started a series of novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust.
The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis|Tina Rosenberg|August 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
And he had been inventing strategic deceptions for Sallust for years.
The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis|Tina Rosenberg|August 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST

That James Bond greatly resembles Gregory Sallust is not an accident.
The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis|Tina Rosenberg|August 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He was employed to restore the garden of Sallust; many of his original pieces have been engraved.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Sallust made Thucydides his model, but fell below him in genius and elevated sentiment.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
Like Voltaire, who inaugurated modern history, Sallust thought more of style than of accuracy as to facts.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
The style of Sallust is brilliant, but his art is always apparent; he is clear and lively, but rhetorical.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
How effective these could be made is seen in the speeches inserted in their histories by Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus.
The Private Life of the Romans|Harold Whetstone Johnston

British Dictionary definitions for Sallust

Sallust

/ (ˈsæləst) /

noun

full name Gaius Sallustius Crispus. 86–?34 bc, Roman historian and statesman, noted for his histories of the Catiline conspiracy and the Roman war against Jugurtha

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012