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    Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (/ˈsæləst/, SAL-əst; 86 – c. 35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from...
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  • Histories (redirect from Historiae)
    Look up historiae or histories in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Histories or, in Latin, Historiae may refer to: the plural of history Histories (Herodotus)...
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  • for fugitives. — Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.17.9 In the Historiae, Sallust mentions a possible origin from the city of Palla, Corsica. Archaeologist...
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    "Heracles" of Libyans and Egyptians. Temple of Antas Sherden Norax Iolaus Sallust, Historiae, II, fr.4 Pausanias, Ελλάδοσ περιήγησισ, X, 17 Lipiński, Edward (1995)...
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  • (3 volumes, 1828–53; edition of the works of Sallust). M. Vellei Paterculi quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae, 1848 – Edition of Velleius. Parallelgrammatik...
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  • to Asconius include a Vita Sallustii (biography of Sallust) referenced in Pliny's Naturalis Historiae, contra Vergilii obtrectatores (a defence of Virgil...
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    Histories (Latin: Historiae) is a Roman historical chronicle by Tacitus. Written c. 100–110, its complete form covered c. 69–96, a period which includes...
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  • Sallust used the Jugurthine War as a backdrop for his examination of the development of party struggles in Rome in the 1st century BC. The Historiae describe...
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    The Histories of Alexander the Great (Latin: Historiae Alexandri Magni) is the only surviving extant Latin biography of Alexander the Great. It was written...
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  • him as an historian to Sallust (Historia Augusta, Hadrian, c. 16); by Valerius Maximus he is designated "certus Romanae historiae auctor" (a reliable authority...
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