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Catiline
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Lucius Sergius Catilina ( – January 62 BC), known in English as Catiline (), was a Roman politician and soldier best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC. Born to an ancient patrician family, he joined Sulla during Sulla's civil war and profited from Sulla's purges of his political enemies, becoming a wealthy man. In the early 60s BC, he served as praetor and then as governor of Africa (67–66 BC). Upon his return to Rome, he attempted to stand for the consulship but was rebuffed; he then was beset w
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Lucius Sergius Catilina, born in 108 BCE in Ancient Rome, was a male politician of the Sergia gens. He held the positions of praetor and Propraetor and worked in Rome. His native language was Latin, and he was married to Aurelia Orestilla.
Catiline died in 62 BCE in Pistoia. He is described in sources including Pauly–Wissowa, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. A quote attributed to him reads, "Idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est."
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- Person.name
- Catiline
- Person.image
- Catilina2-Maccari affresco.jpg
- Person.caption
- Detail of Catiline in Cesare Maccari's fresco (1882–1888) in Palazzo Madama
- Person.birth_name
- Lucius Sergius Catilina
- Person.death_date
- Early January 62 BC
- Person.death_place
- Near Pistoria, Etruria
- Person.father
- Lucius Sergius Silus
- Person.mother
- Belliena
- Person.occupation
- General and politician
- Person.known_for
- Catilinarian conspiracy
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Place of birth
- Ancient Rome
- Place of death
- Pistoia
- Spouse
- Aurelia Orestilla
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Propraetor
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Image
- Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Roman Senate by Cesare Maccari - detail of Catilina.jpg
- Work location
- Rome
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- Catiline
- date of birth
- 0108-00-00
- date of death
- 0062-01-00
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- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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- Sergia gens
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- Category:Catiline
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- Lucius Sergius Catilina
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- Catiline
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Family background
- Early career
- Attempts at the consulship
- Elections of 66 BC and trial
- Consular elections of 64 BC
- Catilinarian conspiracy
- Consular elections
- Conspiracy
- Flight from the city
- Death
- Legacy
- Cultural depictions
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Modern sources
- Ancient sources
- External links
Lucius Sergius Catilina ( – January 62 BC), known in English as Catiline (), was a Roman politician and soldier best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC. Born to an ancient patrician family, he joined Sulla during Sulla's civil war and profited from Sulla's purges of his political enemies, becoming a wealthy man. In the early 60s BC, he served as praetor and then as governor of Africa (67–66 BC). Upon his return to Rome, he attempted to stand for the consulship but was rebuffed; he then was beset with legal challenges over alleged corruption in Africa and his actions during Sulla's proscriptions (83–82 BC). Acquitted on all charges with the support of influential friends in Roman politics, he stood for the consulship in 64 and in 63 BC.
Defeated in the consular , he concocted a plot to take the consulship by force, bringing together poor rural plebs, Sullan veterans, and other senators whose political careers had stalled. Crassus revealed the coup attempt – which involved armed uprisings in Etruria – to Cicero, one of the consuls, in October 63 BC, but it took until November before evidence of Catiline's participation emerged. Discovered, he left the city to join his rebellion. In early January 62 BC, at the head of a rebel army near Pistoria (modern-day Pistoia in Tuscany), Catiline fought the Battle of Pistoria against republican forces. He was killed and his army annihilated.
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