Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.

Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns, and from other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust.

The Italian medieval and Renaissance political tradition today referred to as " civic humanism " is sometimes considered to derive directly from Roman republicans such as Sallust and Tacitus.

More's work, and that of contemporary historian Polydore Vergil, reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing style ; for example, the shadowy King Richard is an outstanding, archetypal tyrant drawn from the pages of Sallust, and should be read as a meditation on power and corruption as well as a history of the reign of Richard III.

Gregory's education was the standard Latin one of Late Antiquity, focusing on Vergil's Aeneid and Martianus Capella's Liber de Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, but also other key texts such as Orosius ' Chronicles, which his Historia is a continuation of, and Sallust, all of which works he refers to in his own.

Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author Sallust, which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian.

Syme's biography of Sallust ( 1964 ), based on his Sather Lectures at the University of California, is also regarded as authoritative.

However, there is no strict evidence about this, and some scholars suppose that Sallust haven't been a quaestor — the practice of violating cursus honorum was common in the last years of the Republic ..

The Company's motto is Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt, from the Roman historian Sallust meaning In Harmony Small Things Grow.

Public officials who lacked virtues invited ill-fortune on themselves and Rome: Sallust uses the infamous Catiline as illustration – " Truly, when in the place of work, idleness, in place of the spirit of measure and equity, caprice and pride invade, fortune is changed just as with morality ".

The traditional derivation of " Tullianum " is from the name of one of the Roman kings Tullus Hostilius or Servius Tullius ( the latter is found in Livy, Varro, and also Sallust ); there is an alternative theory that it is from the archaic Latin tullius " a jet of water ", in reference to the cistern.

It was published in full by E. Fentress ( 2004 ), and a detailed report on the stratigraphy is available on the web ( http :// www. press. umich. edu / webhome / cosa / home. html ) This was a much larger house, on a standard atrium plan, very similar to that of the House of Sallust in Pompeii.

Sallust is said to have begun historical work as a continuation of Sisenna's.

This is a French translation of Sallust ’ s Historia, partially restored with the help of ancient fragments, and illustrated with topographical maps and archaeological founds.

His technique is similar to that of Sallust: incongruency, parataxis, and loose stylistic structure combine to make the characters sharp.

The influence of Sallust is clear in the rest of Tacitus's style as well.

Just as Glaucus is led into the arena with the lion --- who, by a miracle, spares his life and returns to his cage --- Sallust bursts into the arena and reveals Arabaces ' plot.

In some passages the author deliberately imitates Sallust and Tacitus ; his style is, on the whole, vivid and trenchant, his information is exact, and in critical insight he is not inferior to Juan de Mariana.

A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia, was much read in the Middle Ages, and was then ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, who is made to dedicate it to Sallust ; but the language is extremely advanced, and the work belongs to a period much later than the time of Nepos ( probably the 5th century AD ).

On his return to Rome he purchased and began laying out in great splendour the famous gardens on the Quirinal known as the Horti Sallustiani or Gardens of Sallust.

Cato's high moral standards and incorruptible virtue gained him several followers – of whom Marcus Favonius was the most well known – as well as praise even from his political enemies, such as Sallust ( one of our sources for the anecdote about Caesar and Cato's sister ).

* C. Sallustius Crispus, the historian usually known in English as Sallust ( 45 BC, Africa Nova )

Kazinczy, known for possessing great beauty of style, was inspired greatly by the masterpieces of Lessing, Goethe, Wieland, Klopstock, Ossian, La Rochefoucauld, Marmontel, Molière, Metastasio, Shakespeare, Sterne, Cicero, Sallust, Anacreon, and many others.

Sallust wrote an account of the conspiracy that epitomized Catiline as representative of all of the evils festering in the declining Roman republic.

* October 1 – Sallust, Roman historian ( d. 34 BC )

The Res gestae saxonicae are significant historical accounts of the times of Otto the Great and Henry the Fowler, modelled on the works of the Roman historian Sallust and the deuterocanonical Books of the Maccabees.

* Sallust, historian of the fall of the Roman Republic ( b. 86 BC )

Intervening between his studies of Tacitus and Sallust was his 1958 set of lectures, Colonial Elites, which compared the processes and results of colonisation by Romans in Spain, by Spaniards in Latin America, and by English settlers in New England ; on various grounds, Syme distinguished English colonisation of North America from its Roman and Spanish counterparts.

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust ( 86 BC – c. 35 BC ) was a Roman historian, politician, and novus homo from a well-known plebeian family.

Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines and was a popularis, opposer of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar.

This subject gave Sallust the opportunity of showing off his rhetoric at the expense of the old Roman aristocracy, whose degeneracy he delighted to paint in the blackest colours.

Granius compiled a " novel " narrative epitome of Roman history, drawing mainly on Livy and Sallust, that ran to at least 36 books, " keen on anecdotes and curious details.

The Roman historian Sallust wrote a monograph, Bellum Jugurthinum, on the Jugurthine War emphasising this decline of Roman ethics and placed it, along with his work on the Conspiracy of Catiline, in the timeline of the degeneration of Rome that began with the Fall of Carthage and ended with that of the Republic.

Sallustius or Sallust () was a 4th-century writer, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate.

Lampert was superbly educated for his day and wrote in a fine, classicizing Latin peppered with references and allusions to Roman authors, particularly Livy, Sallust, and the playwright Terence.

* Titus Turpilius Silanus, according to Sallust in his history of the Jugurthine War, Titus Turpilius Silanus was the commander of the Roman garrison at Vaga, and the only Roman to survive when the native Numidians rose up against the garrison.

Many of them were excavated in the ancient Roman horti ( e. g. the Gardens of Sallust ) between the 1890s and 1930s, a fruitful period for Roman archaeology.

He was the adopted grandson and biological great, great nephew of the historian Sallust.

Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian Thucydides and amassed great ( and ill-gotten ) wealth from his governorship of Africa.

Due to this Sallust could have been raised in Rome The historian received very good education.

On the whole, antiquity looked favourably on Sallust as an historian.

Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian Sallust ( 86 BC ).

" That he had his own views on historiography should not be doubted: in his opinion, Sallust ought not to be read as an historian at all, but as an orator.

During the run-up to the Jugurthine War the historian Sallust wrote of the extensive bribery of Jugurtha in his attempts to persuade the Senate not to intervene on his brother's behalf.

Crispus was the adopted grandson and biological great-great nephew of the historian Sallust.

According to Anthony Everitt, Terentia later remarried two times, her second husband being the historian Sallust.

He was the adopted grandson and biological great, great nephew of the historian Sallust.

The historian Sallust states she was extremely fortunate in life, marriage, and children, yet had a profligate character.

In his selection of the Senate ( lectio senatus ) as censor, Appius removed a senator of tribunician rank named C. Sallustius Crispus, the later famous historian Sallust.