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Sallustius

2. Caninius Sallustius, the quaestor of Bibulus, proconsul of Syria. to whom one of Cicero's letters is addressed (ad Fam. 2.17). The name seems to be corrupt. It has been conjectured that we ought to read C. Annius Sallustianus or Cn. Sallrcstius.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.