Catiline

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

Exclamation by Cicero, most famously in first Catilinarian oration

political plot in the Roman Republic

set of speeches given by Marcus Tullius Cicero

essay by Sallust

Final battle of Cataline's Conspiracy

suspected plot to murder the ancient Roman consuls