Catiline

[kat-l-ahyn]

noun

1. Lucius Sergius Catilina, 108?–62 b.c., Roman politician and conspirator.

Catiline

/ ˈkætɪˌlaɪn, ˌkætɪlɪˈnɛərɪən /

noun

1. Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108–62 _bc , Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63–62)

Other Word Forms

• Catilinarian adjective

Example Sentences

Randall name-checks philosophers — Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, Marcus Aurelius — he misunderstands to his advantage and drops references to the Catiline Conspiracy and the Battle of Actium to make base actions sound important and dignified.

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Or, in the immortal words of Marcus Tullius Cicero to the Roman Senate regarding Catiline, “Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which every one here possesses of it?”

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Billie Piper was “brilliant” in Yerma; and Joe Dixon, who played Catiline/Mark Antony in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Imperium, is “a giant. Now there’s an actor.”

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Virgil was a schoolchild when the orator and statesman Cicero foiled a plot by the corrupt aristocrat Catiline to overthrow the Republic; by the time the poet was twenty, Julius Caesar, defying the Senate’s orders, had crossed the Rubicon with his army and set in motion yet another civil war.

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Hamilton knew that the uber-wealthy Roman senator Catiline tried twice to overthrow the Roman republic by a broad conspiracy of the rich combined with populist rhetoric, and the wealthiest men of Roman society put together his second conspiracy.

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