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Sallust Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (86-34 BC), Roman historian, belonging to a well-known plebeian family, was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. |
 | | Sallust was opposed to Milo and to Pompey's party and to the old aristocracy of Rome. |
 | | Sallust adopts the usually accepted view of Catiline, and describes him as the deliberate foe of law, order and morality, without attempting to give any adequate explanation of his views and intentions. |
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