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The gens Sallustia, occasionally written Salustia, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned in the time of Cicero, and from that time they attained particular distinction as statesmen and writers. The most illustrious of the family was the historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus, who wrote valuable works on the Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline, which still exist. [1]

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Praenomina

The main praenomina of the Sallustii of the Republic and early Empire were Gaius , Gnaeus , and Publius . Other names appear in imperial times, including Marcus and Quintus . All of these were among the most common names throughout Roman history.

Branches and cognomina

The only cognomen borne by the Sallustii of the Republic was Crispus, belonging to an abundant class of surnames derived from the physical features of an individual, and originally belonging to someone with curly hair. [2] Passienus, borne by some of the Sallustii during the early decades of the Empire, was a gentile name inherited from the paternal line when one of the Passieni was adopted by his granduncle, the historian Sallust, becoming part of his gens. Lucullus, borne by an ill-fated member of this family in the time of Domitian, may have been derived from lucus, a grove, although it might also have been a diminutive of the praenomen Lucius . [3]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Sallustii Crispi

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Given as Caninius Sallustius, which some editors proposed amending to either Gnaeus Sallustius, Gaius Annius Sallustius, or Caninius Sallustianus.

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  1. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Latin Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 695–698 ("Sallustius or Salustius").
  2. ↑ Chase, p. 110.
  3. ↑ Chase, p. 113.
  4. ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, i. 3. 11, xi. 11, 17, Epistulae ad Familiares, xiv. 4. § 6, xiv. 11, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem, iii. 4. § 2, iii. 5. § 1.
  5. ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, ii. 17.
  6. ↑ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 242, 247 (note 2), supplement 55.
  7. ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, xi. 11.
  8. ↑ Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", pp. 191, 217.
  9. ↑ Champlin, "Hadrian's Heir", p. 85.
  10. ↑ Suetonius, "The Life of Domitian", 10.
  11. ↑ Verus, apud Fronto, Epistulae ad Verum, ii. 3.
  12. ↑ CIL XV, 7526.
  13. 1 2 CIL VI, 23601.
  14. ↑ CIL VI, 17543.
  15. ↑ CIL VI, 9331.
  16. 1 2 3 CIL VIII, 9371.
  17. ↑ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antonien, p. 190.
  18. ↑ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander, p. 155.
  19. ↑ Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander.
  20. ↑ CIL VIII, 8828, CIL VIII, 10438, CIL VIII, 22619.
  21. ↑ CIL V, 7473.
  22. ↑ CIL XIV, 4285, AE 1971, 509, AE 1971, 510.
  23. 1 2 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 695 ("Sallustius or Salustius", No. 1).
  24. ↑ Suda, s. v. χυτροπους.
  25. ↑ Simplicius, In Enchiridion Epicteti, p. m. 63.
  26. ↑ Photius, codex ccxlii, p. 342 (ed. Bekker).
  27. ↑ Cassius Dio, xl. 63, xlii. 52, xliii. 9.
  28. ↑ Varro, apud Gellius, xvii. 18.
  29. ↑ Appian, Bellum Civile, viii. 34.
  30. ↑ Suetonius, De Illustribus Grammaticis, 15.
  31. ↑ Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. vi, p. 693.
  32. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Latin Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 697, 698 ("Gaius Sallustius Crispus").
  33. ↑ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 217, 236, 296, 298, 309.
  34. ↑ Tacitus, Annales III.30.3
  35. ↑ Tacitus, Annales, i. 6, ii. 40, iii. 30.
  36. ↑ Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, 10.
  37. ↑ Pliny the Elder, xxxiv. 2.
  38. ↑ Horace, Satirae, i. 2. 48, Carmina, ii. 2.
  39. ↑ Suetonius, "The Life of Passienus Crispus".

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