Catiline
historical figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Catilines · the conspiracy
in the texts
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman patrician and criminal conspirator who led a plot to seize state offices and plunder Rome; he perished when his army was overthrown.
This notorious criminal of patrician rank had conspired with a number of others, many of them young men of high birth but dissipated character, to seize the chief offices of the state, and to extricate themselves from the pecuniary and other difficulties that had resulted from their excesses, by the wholesale plunder of the city.
Stoic Paradoxes
Roman conspirator whose failed plot's remnants are said to have regrouped under the unnamed adversary.
27. PARADOX IV — That every fool is mad.
Consolation to Marcia
The Roman conspirator Catiline, whose plot against the state Cicero survived.
Marcus Cicero, if at that time, when he escaped the daggers of Catiline—by which he was attacked together with his country—he had fallen;
On Anger
Roman figure who personally carried out the torture and killing of Marcus Marius on Sulla's order
Who but Catiline, already exercising his hands in every crime?
On Benefits
Roman conspirator who plotted against the Roman republic, cited as an example of ingratitude and treachery toward his country.
Cicero went into exile after Catiline, his household gods razed, his goods plundered, everything done that a victorious Catiline would have done;
On the Shortness of Life
Roman conspirator named as one of the political adversaries who buffeted Cicero.
Marcus Cicero, tossed about among the likes of Catiline and Clodius, among the Pompeys and the Crassuses—some open enemies, some doubtful friends—while he is buffeted along with the state and holds it back as it founders, only to be swept away at last, neither at rest in prosperity nor able to endure adversity—how often does he curse that very consulship of his, praised by himself not without cause, but without end!
Apologeticum
Roman conspirator referenced regarding a blood-tasting precedent.
Something too was tasted in Catiline's day.