Don't Panic! The story behind the curtain...

Don't Panic! The story behind the curtain Gaius Sallustius Crispus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallust Sallust - The War With Jugurtha: (Translations into other languages are available on this site) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Sallust/Bellum_Jugurthinum/1*.html "I propose to write of the war which the people of Rome waged with Jugurtha, king of the Numidians: first, because it was long, sanguinary and of varying fortune; and secondly, because then for the first time resistance was offered to the insolence of the nobles. The beginning of a struggle which threw everything, human and divine, into confusion, and rose to such a pitch of frenzy that civil discord ended in war and the devastation of Italy." Peace