Sallust: Bellum Catilinae et Bellum Iugurthinum

Sallust (86–34 BCE) wrote monographs, both extant, on Catiline’s conspiracy and the war with Jugurtha. His history of Rome 78–67 BCE survives in fragments. Other works attributed to him are probably spurious. Sallust’s characterization is vivid and he attempts to explain the meaning of events.