Sallust

Gaius Sallustius Crispus was born about 86 BC at Amiternum in the Sabine country. A follower of Caesar, he served as tribune and as governor of Africa, where he was accused of amassing a vast fortune. After Caesar's death he withdrew from politics, laid out the famous Gardens of Sallust in Rome and devoted himself to history. His terse, epigrammatic style, deliberately modelled on Thucydides, lashes the greed and corruption of the Roman nobility. Tacitus called him 'the most brilliant author of Roman history'.