“The Jugurthine War. The Conspiracy of Catiline”

Sallust was a master of historical narrative, even if his history’s can only barely be labled as such. In his desire to press home a moral of the greed and corruption of Rome he sacrificed much of the truth to his own political agenda, even more so than was normal for historians of the time. These two monographs are the only complete surviving works of the great Latin stylist, and despite the details are well worth the reading.