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Sallust was born in 86 BCE in Amiternum in the land of the Sabines (northeast of Rome) as Gaius Sallustius Crispus.

He tried to make a political career in Rome, he was a quaestor around 54 BCE and a people&#;s tribune in 52 BCE. Moreover, Sallust was a great Roman historiographer and writer.

Political career

Like Cicero, he came to Rome as homo novus (&#;new man&#;, a disrespectful name used by nobles to describe a man who was the first in his family to hold the office giving him the right to sit in the senate).

In the capital, he initially used the support of Marcus Licinius Crassus, later his protector was Caesar, whom Sallustius was an ardent supporter of.

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Thus, he belonged to the popular party.

About 54 BCE he became a quaestor and in 52 BCE people&#;s tribune. In 50 BCE he is expelled from the Senate for immoral conduct, which was the work of the censor Appius Claudius Pulcher.

Sallust, as a tribun