Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust
Imaginary portrait of Sallust
Gardens of Sallust
Manuscript of De Bello Jugurthino, c. 1490
4th-century AD bronze medallion, inscribed: SALUSTI/VS AVTOR; an imaginary likeness, sometimes identified as Sallustius Crispus.
Tacitus
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus, was a Roman historian and politician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.
Sallust
…takes 1 October 86 BC as the birthdate. Michael Grant cautiously offers 80s BC. There is no information about Sallust's parents or family, except for Tacitus' mention of his sister. The Sallustii were a provincial noble family of Sabine origin. They belonged to the equestrian order and had full Roman…
Statue of Tacitus outside the Austrian Parliament Building
The title page of Justus Lipsius's 1598 edition of the complete works of Tacitus, bearing the stamps of the Bibliotheca Comunale in Empoli, Italy
Annals 15.44, in the second Medicean manuscript