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...The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as Sallust. Nearly contemporary to the events he describes, he is supposed to have been a retired officer of Caesar's army. Catiline contains the history of the memorable year 63. Sallust describes Catiline as the deliberate foe...

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...ets, lent money at usurious rates, and colluded with Senators and office holders. Sallust, the Roman historian, blamed the civil wars that followe...

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...had recourse, in the first place, to his pocket; but instead of the little Sallust he had brought with him, that the perusal of a classical author mig... ...it from him, as far as he could, into the sea. He then had recourse to the Sallust, which he had at first sought for in vain. As he opened the book, N... ...aith,’ answered Nanty, ‘with help of a little Geneva text, I could read my Sallust as well as you can;’ and snatching the book from Alan’s hand, he be... ...e and remorse, modesty and moderation, every principle gave way.’—Works of Sallust, with Original Essays, vol. ii. p.17.]— There is a slap in the face... ...r- course with you after nigh twenty years’ separation. On my soul, Master Sallust deserves to float on the Solway better than Mother Midnight herself... ...seaman, ‘I have heard of the Sortes Virgilianae, and I dare say the Sortes Sallustianae are as true every tittle. I have consulted honest Crispus on m... ...ow that I am well acquainted with my Bible-book, as well as with my friend Sallust.’ He then, in a snuffling and canting tone, began to repeat the Scr... ...good scholar, and seemed fond of showing it by recurring to the subject of Sallust and Juvenal; while, on the other hand, sea-phrases seldom chequered...

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...arious factions; but they do not consider, that to pur- chase the glory of Sallust, I would not give myself the trouble, sworn enemy as I am to obliga... ...race, Ep., i. i, 19.] Husbandry is otherwise a very servile employment, as Sallust calls it; though some parts of it are more excusable than the rest,... ...r est suae quisque fortunae” [“Every one is the maker of his own fortune.”—Sallust, De Repub. Ord., i. I.] and an uneasy, necessitous, busy, rich man ...

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...er in ebony and black velvet; there is a little banqueting-room taken from Sallust’s house at Pompeii, and painted by Cosway—a little private kitchen,...

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...izens concerning chastity and sobriety, himself liv- ing all that time, as Sallust affirms, in lewdness and adultery. By these ways he so impoverished... ...e led along by the enemy’s camp. I cannot but won- der on this occasion at Sallust, who says that this was the first time camels were seen by the Roma... ...n eloquent speaker and a wise coun- selor, both in the forum and the camp. Sallust says, the sol- diers were ill affected to him from the beginning of...

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...:— you may sometimes trace A feeling in each footstep, as disclosed By Sallust in his Catiline, who, chased By all the demons of all passions,...

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...er in ebony and black velvet; there is a little banqueting-room taken from Sallust’s house at Pompeii, and painted by Cosway—a little private kitchen,...

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...side Road like a toy savings bank—don’t you know the things I mean?—called Sallust’s House, says there is a right of way through our new pleasure grou... ...ide Road. An’ there’s a parson with ‘em, and a flag. An’ him that lives in Sallust’s hoos, he’s there, hoddin’’em on.” “Thrown down the wall!” exclaim... ...ny danger?” “There’s two police,” said the old man, “an’ him that lives at Sallust’s dar’ d them stop him. They’re lookin’ on. An’ there’s a parson am... ...at- isfaction. Lady Brandon, at once suspecting that this was the man from Sallust’s House, and encouraged by the loyalty of the crowd, most of whom m... ...les. The sun was now at the meridian. On a slope to Gertrude’s right hand, Sallust’s House, with its cinnamon-colored walls and yellow frieze, gave a ... ...along the River- side Road. In less than two minutes he passed the gate of Sallust’s House, where he nearly ran over an old woman laden with a basket ... ...phs! Ha, ha” Damn his house!” said Erskine. Next day they went together to Sallust’s House. It stood in the midst of an acre of land, waste except a l... ... windows.” “I admire his cheek,” said Erskine. “Nice pair of ponies, too.” Sallust’s House was square and painted cinnamon color. Beneath the cornice ... ...Meanwhile, Trefusis was fulfilling his promise to write to Donovan Brown. “Sallust’s House. “Dear Brown: I have spent the forenoon angling for a coupl...

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...thenius and Pindar, whose eloquence he could by no means imitate? What could Sallust, Tully, Boethius, Macrobius, Lactantius, Martianus, and in short ...

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...f, so great an excellence and perfection he has above all the rest, though Sallust be one of the number. In earnest, I read this author with more reve... ... and depresses things more out of its own will than of right and justice.”—Sallust, Catilina, c. 8.] So to order it that actions may be known and seen... ... style, I should never attain to it; and though the short round periods of Sallust best suit with my humour, yet I find Caesar much grander and harder...

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...ily added, in my hours of leisure, the remainder of the first decade); all Sallust; a considerable part of Ovid’s Metamorphoses; some plays of 9 Joh...

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...afford, without excepting that of any that ever wrote therein, nay, not of Sallust, Varro, Cicero, Seneca, Titus Livius, nor Quintilian. How then coul... ...selves a way with the edge of our swords through the midst of our enemies. Sallust likewise makes M. Portius Cato say this: The help of the gods is no...