Book
40 BCE
The Conspiracy of Catiline
Sallust
Treats Catiline's failed coup as a symptom of a Republic already corrupted by wealth and ambition, using the conspiracy to diagnose a moral crisis Sallust believed had made the Republic's fall inevitable.
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- This edition
- The linked volume carries both of Sallust's monographs — the Catiline and the Jugurthine War — so the Catiline ends well before the scan does.
- This translation
- John Selby Watson's, Bohn's Classical Library, in an 1896 printing.
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Filed under Ancient Rome in History.