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Sallust

[ sal-uhst ]

noun

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


Sallust

/ ˈsæləst /

noun

  1. Sallust86 bc?34 bcMRomanHISTORY: historianPOLITICS: statesman 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
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Sallust is ruthless and charming, a connoisseur of rare wines and rare women.

As happens in books like these, Sallust pretty much single-handedly wins the war.

As the war began, he started a series of novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust.

And he had been inventing strategic deceptions for Sallust for years.

That James Bond greatly resembles Gregory Sallust is not an accident.

He was employed to restore the garden of Sallust; many of his original pieces have been engraved.

Sallust made Thucydides his model, but fell below him in genius and elevated sentiment.

Like Voltaire, who inaugurated modern history, Sallust thought more of style than of accuracy as to facts.

The style of Sallust is brilliant, but his art is always apparent; he is clear and lively, but rhetorical.

How effective these could be made is seen in the speeches inserted in their histories by Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus.

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