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Gaius Sallustius Crispus

Better known as the historian Sallust with works including the Conspiracy of Cataline and the Jugurthine war

🏛️ Career

  1. 55 BCE
    (aged 31)
    Quaestor

    Broughton: The date of his quaestorship is probably 55, since he was born in 86 and held the tribunate of the Plebs in 52.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • Ps.-Cic. In Sall. 15 (Didius).
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    A. Hirtius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 48 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Calvisius Sabinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Carrinas (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Consul, Dictator) , 46 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

    L. Volcatius Tullus (cos. 33) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 52 BCE
    (aged 34)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: Opposed Milo, and supported his colleagues Plancus and Rufus (a). All ten Tribunes joined together to pass a law permitting Caesar to be a candidate for the consulship in absence (b).

    Sources (2)
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    A. Hirtius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 48 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Calvisius Sabinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Carrinas (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Consul, Dictator) , 46 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

    L. Volcatius Tullus (cos. 33) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 48 BCE
    (aged 38)
    Quaestor

    Broughton: According to Ps.-Cic. (a), he returned to the Senate after his expulsion in 50 by way of the quaestorship. Sobeck (65) would date his return in 49. See 49, Legates.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Invect. in Sall. 6.17; 8.21
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    A. Hirtius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 48 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Calvisius Sabinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Carrinas (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Consul, Dictator) , 46 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

    L. Volcatius Tullus (cos. 33) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

  4. 46 BCE
    (aged 40)
    Praetor

    Broughton: Termed Praetor Designate by Dio (a) in his account of Sallust's peril at the hands of Caesar's mutinous soldiers in the autumn of 47, and Praetor in 46 when with Caesar in Africa (b). See below, Promagistrates.

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Dio 42.52.2, #
      • (b) Bell. Afr. 8.3, and 34.3; see Broughton, TAPhA 79 [1948] 76-78
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    A. Hirtius (2 years; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 48 BCE (Tribune of the Plebs) , 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Calvisius Sabinus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Carrinas (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Julius Caesar (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 48 BCE (Consul, Dictator) , 46 BCE (Consul, Dictator)

    L. Volcatius Tullus (cos. 33) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 46 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.