Sallust: English Text

This text includes J. C. Rolfe’s English translations of The War with Catiline, The War with Jugurtha, and the complete Orations and Letters from Sallust’s otherwise fragmented The Histories. In The War with Catiline, Sallust writes of the Roman senator Catiline’s attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic in 63 BC. The War with Jugurtha recounts the war waged against Jugurtha, the Numidian prince, from 112 BC to 105 BC. The Orations and Letters section includes The Speech of Lepidus, The Speech of Philippus, The Speech of Gaius Cotta, The Letter of Pompey, The Speech of Macer, and The Letter of Mithridates. Rolfe also includes a section of pseudo-Sallustian works—texts that are believed to have been written in an imitation of Sallust and are often mistakenly attributed to him. These works include the Speech to Caesar on the Administration of the State, the Letter to Caesar, The Invective against Marcus Tullius, and The Invective of Marcus Tullius against Sallust.