Catiline (c.108–62bce) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
...Publius Clodius Pulcher. During 64 Catiline and Cicero were rivals for the consulate of the following year. Cicero, supported by wealthy equestrians who opposed Catiline's policy of debt cancellation, defeated him. Catiline also failed to win the support of the poor and politically disgruntled in the next campaign. In October, amid rumors that a frustrated Catiline was plotting violent sedition, Cicero charged him with treason, persuading the senate to pass an ultimate decree ( senates consultum ultimum ) outlawing Catiline. Early in November Cicero delivered...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... A Roman tragedy by Ben Jonson , performed 1611 , based principally on Sallust 's Catiline . Like Sejanus it represents Jonson's wish to treat Roman history with scholarly accuracy, an aim that involved incorporating large portions of Cicero 's Orations in its text. Jonson called it a ‘dramatic poem’, and adopts the Senecan apparatus of an introductory ghost and a classical chorus. The plot portrays the events of the year 63 bc . Catiline, secretly encouraged by Caesar and Crassus, organizes a conspiracy to overthrow the existing government....
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... A Roman tragedy by Ben Jonson , performed 1611 , based principally on Sallust 's Catiline . Like Sejanus it represents Jonson's wish to treat Roman history with scholarly accuracy, an aim that involved incorporating large portions of Cicero 's Orations in its text. Jonson called it a ‘dramatic poem’, and adopts the Senecan apparatus of an introductory ghost and a classical chorus. The plot portrays the events of the year 63 bc . Catiline, secretly encouraged by Caesar and Crassus, organizes a conspiracy to overthrow the existing government....
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Ernst Badian
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)
...sufficient support, for Catiline—an old Sullan, a patrician, and now a demagogue—was both popular and well connected. In November Cicero succeeded in frightening Catiline into leaving Rome to join a force of destitute veterans in Etruria. Soon afterwards, some Allobrogan envoys, carelessly given letters by conspirators in Rome, provided Cicero with the written evidence he needed. The leaders of the conspiracy in Rome were arrested and, after a long debate and a vote in the senate, executed. The consul Antonius marched out against Catiline, who was caught between...
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Ernst Badian
Who's Who in the Classical World
...support, for Catiline—an old Sullan, a patrician, and now a demagogue—was both popular and well connected. In November Cicero succeeded in frightening Catiline into leaving Rome to join a force of destitute veterans in Etruria. Soon afterwards, some Allobrogan envoys, carelessly given letters by conspirators in Rome, provided Cicero with the written evidence he needed. The leaders of the conspiracy in Rome were arrested and, after a long debate and a vote in the senate, executed. The consul Antonius marched out against Catiline, who was caught...
Ca'tiline (d. 62 bc) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
...action until he had frightened Catiline into leaving Rome to join forces with destitute veteran soldiers in Etruria, and had obtained written evidence to convince the senate of Catiline's intentions. The senatus consultum ultimum was passed late in 63 and the leaders of the conspiracy still in Rome were arrested and, after much debate and a vote in the senate, executed. Catiline was now in open rebellion against the state; the consul Antonius marched out with an army, and defeated and killed him early in 62 . Catiline's severest critics, Cicero and...
Catiline’s Conspiracy Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...’s Conspiracy Lucius Sergius Catilina conspired with a number of dissolute young nobles ( 65 bc ) to plunder the Roman treasury, destroy the senate and fire the city as part of a political revolution. cicero , who was consul, gained full information of the plot and delivered his first Oration against Catiline ( 8 November 63 bc ), whereupon Catiline left Rome. Next day Cicero delivered his second Oration, and several of the conspirators were arrested. His third Oration regarding the punishment to be accorded was made on 4 December and, after his...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music (6 ed.)
... Conspiracy, The Opera in 2 acts by Hamilton to lib. by comp. based on Ben Jonson's Catalina ( 1611 ). Comp. 1972–3 . Prod. Stirling 1974...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... ( c. 108–62 bc ), 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...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
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