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The Jugurthine War and The Conspiracy of Catiline
Sallust
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 42 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 220
Leaving Rome with his bribes paid and everything he came for won, Jugurtha looks back at the city and calls it a place for sale, doomed the moment it finds a buyer. Sallust wrote two short books to prove him right.
That it was a venal city, and would soon perish, if it could but find a purchaser!
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