Jugarthine War / Conspiracy of Catiline - Sallust - 1975 Penguin Books Paperback

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Blurb: “TRANSLATED BY S. A. HANDFORD

Sallust (86-c,35 B.C.), who held various public offices in Rome and later a governorship in Africa, supported the political group known as the populares. He was a friend of Caesar and an opponent of Cicero. His history of the war against Jugurtha, King. of Numidia, and his account of Catiline's conspiracy in 63 B.C. are his only complete works to survive; they were written in the years after Caesar's assassination.

These narratives are more noteworthy for literary style than strict accuracy, and S. A. Handford's new translation fully preserves the dramatic and vivid qualities of the original Latin.“