Sallustius Crispus, C.
Cum Veterum Historicorum Fragmentis. Editio Novissima.
Leyden, Ex Officina Elzeviriana (B. and A. Elzevier), 1634
1st edition
(14),310,(34)p.,
engraved title, woodcut portrait of the author
Size 3 by 5 1/4"
Calf binding with missing spine
Upper hinge broken; lower hinge strengthened; inner margin title and first leaf glued onto upper pastedown.
Text in Latin


Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (86 – c.?35 BC), was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became during the 50s BC a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC).
He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline (on the eponymous conspiracy), The Jugurthine War (on the eponymous war), and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant.
As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides.
During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa.



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