Excerpt from La Conjuration de Catilina Les vieux Romains, quand ils prenaient leur retraite, se retiraient dans leurs terres; mais Salluste n'etait pas homme a se contenter de la culture de ses champs ou du plaisir de la chasse ce sont, disait-il, des occupations d'esclave i Il lui en fallait d'autres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.