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There are four instances of Sallust in four chapters.
Normalized frequency of Sallust in the Essays
say is that I would not take the trouble for all of Sallust’s fame.∗ I am a sworn enemy of commitment, diligence, and perseverance. Nothing …
Husbandry is otherwise a very servile employment, as Sallust calls it; though some parts of it are more excusable than the …
great an excellence and perfection he has above all the rest, though Sallust be one of the number. In earnest, I read this author with …
should never attain to it; and though the short round periods of Sallust best suit with my humor, yet I find Caesar much grander and …