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Excerpt from Sallust's History Of The War Against Jugurtha, And Of The Conspiracy Of Catiline: With a Dictionary And Notes
At an early age. Probably about the year of Rome 695. Be obtained the questorship. And consequently became entitled to a seat in the senato. In the year 701. During a period of great civil commotion. He was made a tribune of the people; and in the dimensions consequent upon the death of Glodina, ho took an active part in opposition to Milo. To this course he was probably moved not less by personal hostility to Milo. Whom he had greatly injured, and from whom he had received a severe. But well merited chastisement than by attachment to the party of Clodius... In the year 704 the censore, Appius Clau dins and Calpurnius Piso. Degraded him from hrs rank as senator, on account of the infamy of his private character.
I t was probably about this tune. That he wrote the History of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, with the exception. Perhaps. Of the part relating to the character: of Cesar and Cato. Though some ascribe to the whole work a later date. Ot most of the events connected with this conspiracy. Sallust had been an eye witness. And. With few exceptions. He appears to have recorded them with ex emplary impartiality. Though at a later period. The bitter enemy of Cicero. Ha manifesta no such hostdity in his account of this conspiracy. Unless it be found in the somewhat faint praise which he bestows upon that illustrious orator and patriotic statesman.
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