Editing Sallust (section)

=== Other works ===
{{see also|Epistula Mithridatis}}

His last work, ''Historiae'', covered events from 78&nbsp;BC; none of it survives except a fragment of book 5, concerning the year 67&nbsp;BC.{{sfn|Pelling|2012|p=1311}} From the extant fragments, he seemed to again emphasize moral decline after Sulla; he "was not generous to Pompey".{{sfn|Pelling|2012|p=1311}} Historians regret the loss of the work, as it must have thrown much light on a very eventful period, embracing the war against [[Sertorius]] (died 72 BC), the campaigns of [[Lucullus]] against [[Mithradates VI of Pontus]] (75–66 BC), and the victories of [[Pompey]] in the East (66–62 BC).{{cn|date=March 2022}}

Two letters (''Duae epistolae de republica ordinanda''), letters of political counsel and advice addressed to Caesar, and an attack upon Cicero (''Invectiva'' or ''Declamatio in Ciceronem''), frequently attributed to Sallust, are thought by modern scholars to have come from the pen of a rhetorician of the first century AD, along with a counter-invective attributed to Cicero. At one time [[Marcus Porcius Latro]] was considered a candidate for the authorship of the pseudo-Sallustian corpus, but this view is no longer commonly held.<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Smith
  | first = William
  | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
  | contribution = Latro, M. Porcius
  | editor-last = Smith
  | editor-first = William
  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]
  | volume = 2
  | pages = 726
  | publisher = Stefano Ciufferpebble
  | year = 1867
  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1834.html
  | access-date = 8 September 2007
  | archive-date = 15 March 2009
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090315034607/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1834.html
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref>