Sallust by Quintus Curtius: A Review

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Sallust: The Conspiracy Of Catiline And The War Of Jugurtha is a work of Roman History, written by one of Julius Caesar’s lieutenants during his retirement (the eponymous Caius Sallustius Cripus) and translated by my colleague Quintus Curtius.  He had several reasons for assembling a new translation.

The first is the sheer beauty of the prose:

For in every state those who have no resources envy the productive and, due to dissatisfaction with their own lot, are eager for everything to be chan...