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  2. Emile, Bk. IV, implies that Sallust was among the wisest of ancient historians (see Pléiade edition, Vol. IV, p. 529). In The Social Contract, Bk. Ill, ch. 5, Rousseau added a quotation from the fragments of Sallust's Histories to D'Invernois's copy (see Pléiade edition, Vol. Ill, p. 1478). David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Bk.
  3. Romans. In the EM, the "Roman" Sallust was capable of criticizing Romans and even valorizing barbarians' complaints against Rome. In his corresponding speech of Mithridates, the "foreigner" Trogus, however, pulled most of his punches. It is thus incorrect to assume that Roman historians inevitably discussed barbarians with the im-
  4. of the Roman civil wars, Sallust, in order to investigate how he perceived the consequences of Roman expansion (4). Sallust has been chosen because he played (1) See, for example, H. Gesche, Rom. Welteroberer und Weltorganisator (Munich, 1981), p. 149, and M. I. Finley, Politics in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 1983), p. 17 if.
  5. 338-47). W.'s discussion of Sallust's Catiline would have been enhanced by exploring how that historian helped to create and perpetuate the legend of a conspiracy in early 65, but this could only have been done by going beyond Sallust to other ancient sources as well. In addition to creating events that did not happen, Sallust also leaves
  6. neither Sallust nor the nature of the crisis can be properly understood except as phenomena of Rome; and the author does Sallustian studies an important service in interpreting Sallust's thought in Roman terms, the terms familiar to his original readers, and by which they would themselves have judged events. Sallust is neither for the nobiles ...
  7. Classical Quarterly 50.1 170-191 (2000) Printed in Great Britain 170 SALLUST'S CA TILINE AND CATO THE CENSOR' That Sallust owed a considerable debt to the writings of Cato the Censor was observed in antiquity,2 and the observation has often been discussed and expanded on by modern scholars.3 The ancient references to Sallust's employment of ...
  8. view (Sallust himself being "partly to blame") Syme urges that the last epoch of the Roman Republic was an era of liberty, vitality, and innova-tion, not decadence. "Instead of moaning and moralizing," Sallust might have considered himself fortunate; it was a time of opportunity for the talented municipalis. Syme guesses that Sallust could have ...
  9. In the prologue Sallust had used the virtue of the elder Scipio as a contrast to , the greed of Sallust's own contemporaries. He is extolled an exemplar of an earlier era when the of Roman . virtusgravitas. was fervently aspired to and honored. 7. When the elder Scipio viewed his family's ancestral masks, Sallust says,
  10. Commentary on Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum (Liverpool 1984) 5: Sallust's idealistic and schematic treatment is "a disservice to sober history". 24 G. Kennedy, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World (Princeton 1972) 220, 294ff.; A. D. Leeman, Orationis Ratio (Amsterdam 1963) 67-88, 168-87; H. North, "Rhetoric and Historiography," QJS 42 (1956 ...
  11. Lintott, 'Imperial expansion and moral decline in the Roman Republic', Historia 21 (1972), 626-38 on metus hostilis. 4 Compare Cat. 10-12, where Sulla is the more important turning point. See T.F. Scanlon, 'Textual geography in Sallust's "The War with Jugurtha'", Ramus 17 (1988), 138-75, at 149.

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