Catiline
Also known as Lucius Sergius Catilina, Catilina
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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- approximately 108 B.C.
- Died
- 62 B.C.
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- The conspirators, or, The case of Catiline, as collected from the best historians, impartially examin'd with respect to his declared and covert abettors and the artifices used to skreen the conspirators from punishment
- C. Sallvstii Crispi De conivratione Catilinae, et De bello Ivgvrthino historiae. In M. Tullium Ciceronem oratio. M. Tullij Ciceronis ad Salustium responsio; eiusdem Ciceronis in L. Catilinam orationes quinque. Lucij Catilinæ In M. T. Ciceronem orationes responsiuæ duæ. Porcij Latronis declamatio in L. Catilinam. Fragmenta quædam ex libris historiarum Salustij. Cum Iodoci Badii Ascensii in haec omnia familiaribvs explanationibus, & aliorum doctissimorum virorum commentarijs & annotationibus sparsim appositis, quibus difficillima quæque Salustij loca explicantur, & explanantur
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Lucius Sergius Catilina (108 BC – 62 BC), known in English as Catiline, was a Roman Senator of the 1st century BC who is best known for the Catilinarian conspiracy, a supposed attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic, and in particular the power of the aristocratic Senate. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Catiline">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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- 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
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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 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.