Catilinarian

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[kat-l-uh-nair-ee-uhn] / ˌkæt l əˈnɛər i ən /

adjective

1. pertaining to or resembling Catiline.

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noun

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

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

Etymology

Origin of Catilinarian

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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This omission, which may have originated partly in enmity, and partly in disgust at the ill-disguised vanity of the Consul, has in all times been regarded as the chief defect, and even stain, in the history of the Catilinarian conspiracy.

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Such, indeed, is the vehement pathos, and such the resources employed to excite pity in favour of the oppressed, and indignation against the guilty, that the genius of the orator is nowhere more conspicuously displayed—not even in the Philippics or Catilinarian harangues.

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