Catilinarian

[kat-l-uh-nair-ee-uhn]

adjective

1. pertaining to or resembling Catiline.

noun

1. a person who participated in Catiline's conspiracy.

2. a person who resembles or imitates Catiline; conspirator.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Catilinarian¹

1815–25; < Latin Catilin ( a ) Catiline + -arian

Example Sentences

Little else is known of him except that he declared in favour of the death punishment for the Catilinarian conspirators.

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The work of Ortica also comprehends a version of Cicero’s fourth Catilinarian orations, and the supposed reply of Catiline.

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Carrio, who published an edition at Antwerp in 1579, collected many of the fragments of Sallust’s great History of Rome; and he amended the text of the Catilinarian and Jugurthine Wars, as he himself boasts, in several thousand places.

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In 1751, Dr Rose published a new translation of the Catilinarian and Jugurthine Wars.

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The cause was neither farther prosecuted at this time, nor subsequently revived; the public attention being now completely engrossed by the imminent dangers of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, which was discovered during the Consulship of Cicero.

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