What is "sallust"

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (; 86 – c. 35 BC), was a Roman historian, politician, and novus homo from a provincial plebeian family. Sallust was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines and was a popularis, an opponent of the old Roman aristocracy, throughout his career, and later a partisan of Julius Caesar. Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Catiline's War (about the conspiracy in 63 BC of L. Sergius Catilina), The Jugurthine War (about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BC), and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) are still extant. Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian Thucydides and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Africa.

The names Sallustius/Saloustios and their vernacular variants Sallust(e) have been borne by many people:

• Sallust or Gaius Sallustius Crispus, historian of the 1st century BCE
  • Gardens of Sallust
• Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus, 1st-century CE Roman notable
• Sallustius Lucullus, 1st-century CE governor of Roman Britain
• Seius Sallustius, 3rd-century usurper
• Sallustius the Philosopher, a Neoplatonic writer who might be the same as either:
  • Flavius Sallustius, 4th-century Hispano-Roman statesman, consul and praetorian prefect of Gaul
  • Saturninus Secundus Sallustius, 4th-century Gallo-Roman statesman, praetorian prefect of the Orient
• Sallustius of Emesa, 5th-century Cynic philosopher
• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 16th-century French Protestant epic poet
• Salluste Duval, 19th-century Canadian inventor

Sallust (1969–1987) was an Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed good form as a two-year-old in 1971, winning two of his five races including the Richmond Stakes, but appeared to be just below the highest class. He ran poorly on his three-year-old debut but then won the Diomed Stakes, Prix de la Porte Maillot, Sussex Stakes, Goodwood Mile and Prix du Moulin. By decisively defeating opponents such as High Top and Lyphard he established himself as the best specialist miler in Europe and was rated the best three-year-old of 1972 by Timeform. He returned to Ireland for his stud career and had some success as a sire of winners.