1546 SALLUST HISTORY OF CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE & JUGURTINE WAR ANTIQUE FOLIO

1546 SALLUST HISTORY OF CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE & JUGURTINE WAR ANTIQUE FOLIO

De coniuratione catilinae, et de bello iugurthino historiae ...

by C. Crispus Sallust

Venice, for Hieronymus Scotus; 1546

( History of the Conspiracy of [Lucius Sergius] Catiline and the Jugurthine War )

Sallust's monographs of the Catiline conspiracy (De coniuratione Catilinae or Bellum Catilinae) and the Jugurthine War (Bellum Jugurthinum) have come down to us complete, together with fragments of his larger and most important work (Historiae), a history of Rome from 78 to 67 BC.

with woodcut printer's mark.

4 lvs., 142 (of 144) numbered leaves, 5 leaves.

Lacks leaves 1 and 6

18th century limp cardboard binding

- Adams S 157. -

Some occasional stains, some marginalia and underlining.

Small folio: 8 3/4 by 12 1/2"

Text in Latin

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (c.?86–35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family.

Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC.

He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides.

During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa.

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