Conspiracy of Catiline
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Catiline and his conspirators · the affair of Catiline · the conspiracy · the great conspiracy of Catiline
spoken of as
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Caesar (Greek)
but he left Lentulus and Cethegus behind him in the city to promote the conspiracy in his place.
in the texts
Brutus
The plot by Catiline to overthrow the Roman government, recalled here as the setting for the senate incident exposing Servilia's love note to Caesar.
It is said also that when the great conspiracy of Catiline, which came near overthrowing the city, had come to the ears of the senate, Cato and Caesar, who were of different opinions about the matter, were standing side by side, and just then a little note was handed to Caesar from outside, which he read quietly.
Caesar
The plot to overthrow the Roman government, culminating in the senate debate over executing the captured conspirators.
but he left Lentulus and Cethegus behind him in the city to promote the conspiracy in his place.
As a result, the men were handed over to the executioner, and many of the young men who at that time formed a body-guard for Cicero ran together with drawn swords and threatened Caesar as he was leaving the senate.
Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero
The conspiracy against the Roman state that occasioned Cicero's effectively dictatorial consular power, cited as fulfilling Plato's political ideal.
And when in Rome itself he was appointed consul in name, but really received the power of a dictator and sole ruler against Catiline and his conspirators, he bore witness to the truth of Plato’s prophecy that states would then have respite from evil, when in one and the same person, by some happy fortune, great power and wisdom should be conjoined with justice.