The advices of Salustio to Caesar before the civil war

Abstract

The existence of two Letters devoted to Sallust and written to Caesar, one before and one after the Civil War, gives us the opportunity to study the political background of the “popular” faction in those key years of the History of Rome. However, the academic debate on the author of these Letters –Sallust or a rhetor of the second Centuryafter Christ- has hidden the content of the works, being not very studied by historians. From our point of view, the letter before the civil war, dated supposedly in 50 b. C., is very important to reach and understanding of how opinion was formed at the end of the roman Republic, and what kind of advices could be given from the republican legality to a general wishing to pervert it on his own behalf.