Catilina seu Bellum Catilinarum; Iugurtha, seu Bellum Iugurthinum; Historiarum Fragmenta; Fragmenta historicorum veterum - Sallustius 86 BC-c. 35 BC (Amsterdam Iansson, 1647)
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Lucius Sergius Catilina was a Roman politician and soldier. He is best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to violently seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC.
De bello Iugurthino (also: Bellum Iugurthinum) is Sallust's second historical monograph after De coniuratione Catilinae. The work deals with the events of the war waged by Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix in 111-106 BC against the Numidian king Jugurtha and was written around 40 BC. The main theme of the work is not so much the description of the Jugurthine War, but rather the presentation of certain internal political conditions in Rome. Above all, the contrast between the nobility and the plebeians, the unpleasantness of party fights and the civil wars are discussed. At the end of his explanations, Sallust puts forward the thesis that the decline of the commonwealth was due to the politicians' striving for power.
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Ex libris Wilhelm Merveilleux 1820 (manuscript)
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 17th Century (1601-1700); History; Rhetoric; Politics; War; Holy Roman Empire; blokfluit; Boxhorn, M.Z.; slagwerk