The Works of Sallust

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Excerpt from The Works of Sallust: Translated Into English The honours which the Romans paid to the memory of this extraordinary person, afford a most striking example of the anomalies of the human mind. His government had been a series of murders and proscriptions, ninety senators had fallen the victims of his cruelty, and near three thousand knights had been massacred or exiled. He had sacrificed to the rage of civil dissension tlie'blood of one hun~ dred thousand citizens, and yet around the 'pile of this foe to her liberties, Rome did not blush to exhibit all the pageantry of grief and the shower of rain which happened to fall after the burning of the body, was supposed by the infatuated people to he sent expressly by heaven at that moment, to cool the ashes of the' tyrant, and give him, even in death, some proof of its interposition in his favour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.