Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

SALL2429 C. Sallustius (10) Qui. Crispus

Life Dates

  • 86, birth (Broughton MRR II)
  • 50, expelled from Senate (RE)
  • 35, death (DPRR Team) Expand

    Suet. Gram. 10, Hieron. Chron. Ol. 186.1 ('4 years before Actium').

Relationships

brother of
? Sallustia (40) (sister of? C. Sallustius (10) Qui. Crispus (pr. 46)) (Zmeskal 2009)
adoptive father of
C. Sallustius (11) Crispus (grandson of? Sallustia (40)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Tac. ann. III 30

Career

  • Quaestor? 55 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Ps.-Cic. In Sall. 15 (Didius). The date of his quaestorship is probably 55, since he was born in 86 and held the tribunate of the Plebs in 52. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Tribunus Plebis 52 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Opposed Milo, and supported his colleagues Plancus and Rufus (Ascon. 37, 44-45, and 49 C). All ten Tribunes joined together to pass a law permitting Caesar to be a candidate for the consulship in absence (Caes. BC 1.32.3, cf. 9.2; Cic. Att. 7.1.4, and 3.4, and 6.2; Fam. 6.6.5; 8.3.3; 16.12.3; Phil. 2.24; Liv. Per. 107; Suet. Iul. 26, and 28; Plut. Pomp. 56; App. BC 2.25; Flor. 2.13.16; Dio 40.51.2). (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 49 Illyricum (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • He also attempted to send aid to C. Antonius (Oros. 6.15.8; cf. Schol. Bern. on Lucan 4, p. 135 Usener; see above, on C. Antonius). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Quaestor? 48 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • According to Ps.-Cic. (Invect. in Sall. 6.17; 8.21), 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. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Sumner rejects the statement in Ps.-Cic. (Invect. in Sall. 6.17; 8.21) that Sallust returned to the Senate after his expulsion in 50 by repeating the quaestorship (MRR 2.274), and accepts Dio's statement that he did so by becoming praetor designate in 47, and praetor in 46 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 259; cf. MRR 2.274, 296; Dio 42.52.2). On his career, see Syme, Sallust 29-42; Wiseman, NM 258, no. 372.[184] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 47 Italia, Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • No title preserved. Barely escaped death at the hands of Caesar's mutinous legionaries (App. BC 2.92; Dio 42.52.2). See 46, Praetors, and note 3. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 46 Africa Nova (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Caesar placed him in command pro consule of the province of Africa Nova, which he formed from territory annexed from Juba's kingdom (Bell. Afr. 97.1; App. BC 2.100; Dio 43.9.2; cf. Ps.-Cic. Inv. in Sall. 19; see above, Praetors; and 45, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 46 Africa (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Termed Praetor Designate by Dio (42.52.2, #) 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 (Bell. Afr. 8.3, and 34.3; see Broughton, TAPhA 79 [1948] 76-78). See below, Promagistrates. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Sumner rejects the statement in Ps.-Cic. (Invect. in Sall. 6.17; 8.21) that Sallust returned to the Senate after his expulsion in 50 by repeating the quaestorship (MRR 2.274), and accepts Dio's statement that he did so by becoming praetor designate in 47, and praetor in 46 (Phoenix 25, 1971, 259; cf. MRR 2.274, 296; Dio 42.52.2). On his career, see Syme, Sallust 29-42; Wiseman, NM 258, no. 372.[184] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Proconsul 45 Africa Nova (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul in Africa Nova (see 46, Promagistrates). He repaired his fortunes, it is charged, by extensive peculation, and upon his return (before March 44) escaped trial and possible conviction only through Caesar's intervention (Ps.-Cic. Inv. in Sa11ust. 19; Dio 43.9.2-3, cf. 47.4). Sternkopf (Hermes 47 [1912] 329) holds that in virtue of Caesar's law limiting praetorian governors to only one year Sallust received a successor in 45. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul? 44 Africa Nova (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • See 45, Promagistrates. He may have returned from Africa Nova late in 45 or at the latest early in 44. (Broughton MRR II)

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