SALLUST

Born in Italy about 86 B.C.; died about 34; elected tribune

in 52; expelled from the Senate by the censors in 50,

probably for being an active partizan of Caesar; accompanied

Caesar on his African campaign in 46; became governor of

Numidia, where he is said to have amassed a fortune

unjustly; author of histories of the Catiline conspiracy and

the war with Jugurtha.[58]

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