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Lucius Sergius Catilina (c. 108 BC – January 62 BC), known in English as Catiline (/ ˈ k æ t ə l aɪ n /), was a Roman politician and soldier, best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to violently seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC.
Catiline (born c. 108 bc —died 62 bc, Pistoria, Etruria) was an aristocrat in the late Roman Republic who turned demagogue and made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the republic while Cicero was a consul (63).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Catiline, ever the warrior, fought with the ferocity of a man with nothing left to lose. He and his men resisted valiantly, but as the day wore on, the superior tactics and numbers of the Roman legions began to tell. By the battle's end, Catiline's forces were decimated.
Feb 3, 2016 · At the center of this turmoil were two men - Lucius Sirgius Catiline and Marcus Tullius Cicero. Catiline was a near bankrupt aristocrat, while Cicero, his most outspoken adversary, was a renowned orator and statesman as well as a philosopher and poet.
- Donald L. Wasson
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The Catilinarian conspiracy, sometimes Second Catilinarian conspiracy, was an attempted coup d'état by Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline) to overthrow the Roman consuls of 63 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gaius Antonius Hybrida – and forcibly assume control of the state in their stead.
Jun 11, 2018 · Catiline (c.108–62 bc), Roman nobleman and conspirator. In 63 bc his planned uprising was discovered by Cicero, and Catiline fled from Rome. In the suppression of the uprising his fellow conspirators were executed and Catiline himself died in battle in Etruria.
The Catilinarian orations ( Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls. The speeches all related to the discovery, investigation, and suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, a plot that year to overthrow the republic.
