Catilinarian

C. Sallustius Crispus (Sallust, c. 86–c. 35) wrote two classic historical monographs—the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, as well as a major history (lost).

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In 58 the hostility of P. Clodius effected Cicero's banishment, on the ground that he had put the Catilinarian conspirators to death without trial.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Cicero in his capacity of spy in the days of the Catilinarian conspiracy, and was able to report words of his sufficiently characteristic, yet this letter to Atticus exonerates Cicero from suspicion, even if there were a plot, and even if we could believe that he could have brought himself to plot the death of Pompey.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have, therefore, nothing exactly contemporaneous to help us to form a judgment on the great event which coloured so much of his after life, the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy and the execution of the conspirators, in the last month of his consulship.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

He does not refer to the so-called "first Catilinarian conspiracy," but mentions

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

DEBATE: Resolved that Cicero was justified in putting the Catilinarian conspirators to death.

A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson

But he had thereby got so deeply into debt, that when, after his praetorship -- with which he was invested in B.C. 62, the year after the Catilinarian conspiracy -- he wanted to leave Rome to go to his province of Spain, he was kept back by his creditors; and he was not allowed to depart until M. Crassus had given security for him.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Catilinarian speeches illustrate the event which coloured the whole of Cicero's life.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

Catiline, we believe, has found no formal defender, but the Catilinarian Conspiracy is now generally admitted to have been the Popish Plot of antiquity, with an ounce of truth to a pound of falsehood in the narratives of it that have come down to us from Rome's revolutionary age, in political pamphlets and party orations.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

(B.C. 62), as proconsul in Gallia Cisalpina, engaged against the remains of the Catilinarian conspiracy.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero