A partisan to Julius Caesar and the earliest known Roman historian who was highly regarded in his time. Many future writers borrowed from his works, including Lucan, Plutarch and Marcellinus.
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He found pasture neither among them nor among those writers who are peculiarly the delight of the spuriously literate: Sallust, who is less colourless than the others;
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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In mourning for Sallust, Mulligan says. Whose mother is beastly dead.