About Sallust

Sallust

He was born in 86 BC from a family of commoners. Become a Senator after beeing part of other institutions but was sent off (do not know the precise reason). When Caesar arrived, he starts with this commander and get the governorship of North Africa, he is accused of corruption, but through the intervention of Caesar, the process is closed. Sallust resigned from all offices and buy a villa in central Rome to devote himself to literature and history.
Works: Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Iugurthinum, Historiae (incomplete).

Bellum Catilinae

The Roman historians wrote based mainly on the "Annales". But the work was developing monograph (which was about a small story), this is the kind of stories of Sallust.
Catilina is a young noble who tries a plot against the Senate but is discovered and exiled from Cicero, Catilina tries to raise an army to seize power but was defeated and killed in battle.

ideologies
Sallust said that the riches of the Punic wars have corrupted the customs of the Roman ruling class. They have lost the "Mos Maiorum".

lexicon
Also uses archaic forms, but in essence is simple.