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Lucius Sergius Silus (father) Belliena (mother) Lucius Sergius Catilina ( c. 108 BC – January 62 BC), known in English as Catiline ( / ˈkætəlaɪn / ), was a Roman politician and soldier, best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to violently seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC.
Catiline, ever the warrior, fought with the ferocity of a man with nothing left to lose. He and his men resisted valiantly, but as the day wore on, the superior tactics and numbers of the Roman legions began to tell.
Catiline was an aristocrat in the late Roman Republic who turned demagogue and made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the republic while Cicero was a consul (63). Catiline served under Pompey’s father in the Social War of 89 and acquired an unsavoury reputation as a zealous participant in.
The Catilinarian conspiracy, sometimes Second Catilinarian conspiracy, was an attempted coup d'état by Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline) to overthrow the Roman consuls of 63 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gaius Antonius Hybrida – and forcibly assume control of the state in their stead.
Feb 3, 2016 · Catiline verSus Cicero. At the center of this turmoil were two men - Lucius Sirgius Catiline and Marcus Tullius Cicero. Catiline was a near bankrupt aristocrat, while Cicero, his most outspoken adversary, was a renowned orator and statesman as well as a philosopher and poet.
The Catilinarian orations ( Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls. The speeches all related to the discovery, investigation, and suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, a plot that year to overthrow the republic.
Jun 11, 2018 · Catiline. Catiline (ca. 108-62 B.C.), or Lucius Sergius Catilina, was a Roman politician and revolutionary. Cicero blocked his attempt to overthrow the government in 63 B.C.
The main redeeming feature of Catiline's followers was their loyalty to their leader. THE COURSE OF THE CONSPIRACY Catiline's conduct during his election campaign in July 63 B.C. gave cause for alarm to all right thinking citizens.
Roman nobleman and conspirator. In 63 bc his planned uprising was discovered by Cicero, and Catiline fled from Rome. In the suppression of the uprising his fellow conspirators were executed and Catiline himself died in battle in Etruria.
A Roman tragedy by Jonson, performed 1611, based principally on Sallust's Catiline and Cicero's orations. The play concerns the events of the year 63 bc, when Catiline organized a conspiracy to overthrow the existing government and to renew with the aid of Sulla's veterans the scenes of bloodshed which Rome had recently seen.
