
Episode XCVII - Sallust
Emperors of Rome
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Cicerot's Conquest of Catalina, a Criminal Enterprise
It sounds a bit like he's using the opportunity of writing a book to tell rome what's wrong and why they shouldn't go by these mistakes that he's going to talk about. There's something you can learn from this. At some stage, i'm going to get to the conspiracy. It's sort of the implication there. As as a historical work, how does it stuck up? Well, not everyone regards it highly, as far as we can tell. And we have cicero to compare against. An acause cicero was a major character in in this event,. So he kind of stretches out some time and makes some things appear to happen closer together than they
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