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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.
FreeIntermediatelink checked 17 Sept 2026

Filed under Ancient Rome in History.