Catiline
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And like the maligned Catiline, this vigorously paced show knows how to play to the crowd.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2018
He called Burr a latter-day Catiline, the ancient Roman senator who attempted a populist uprising against the Republic.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2016
Still, the Catiline oration is quite a speech to hold up and praise as fitting.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 2014
Opposition research is as old as politics itself—Cicero’s orations against Catiline, a dodgy candidate for the Roman consulship in 63BC, were notably well-informed.
From Economist ● Jul. 10, 2014
This was the decision that caused Hamilton to repeat his earlier characterizations of Burr as the unprincipled American Catiline, which in turn generated the newspaper reports containing the offensive word “despicable.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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