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Catiline

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Catiline
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Detail of Catiline in Cesare Maccari's fresco in Palazzo Madama
Born
Lucius Sergius Catilina

c. 108 BC
Diedearly January 62 BC
Near Pistoria, Etruria
NationalityRoman
Occupation(s)General and politician
Known forCatilinarian conspiracy
Parents
  • Lucius Sergius Silus (father)
  • Belliena (mother)
For other uses, see Catiline (disambiguation).

Lucius Sergius Catilina (c. 108 BC – January 62 BC), known in English as Catiline (/ˈkætəlaɪn/), was a Roman politician and soldier. He is best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to violently seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC.

Born to an ancient patrician family, he joined Sulla during Sulla's civil war and profited from Sulla's purges of his political enemies, becoming a wealthy man. In the early 60s BC, he served as praetor and then as governor of Africa. Upon his return to the city, he attempted to stand for the consulship but was rebuffed; he then was beset with legal challenges over alleged corruption in Africa and his actions during the proscriptions. Acquitted on all charges with the support of influential friends from across Roman politics, he stood for the consulship twice in 64 and 63 BC.

Twice defeated in the consular comitia, he concocted a violent plot to take the consulship by force, bringing together poor rural plebs, Sullan veterans, and other senators whose political careers had stalled. The coup attempt, involving armed uprisings in Etruria, was revealed to the consul Cicero in October 63 BC but it took until November before evidence of Catiline's participation emerged. Discovered, he left the city to join his rebellion. In early January 62 BC, at the head of a rebel army near Pistoria (modern day Pistoia), he fought a battle with republican forces; Catiline was killed and his army annihilated.

Catiline's name became a byword for doomed and treasonous rebellion in the years after his death. Sallust, in his monograph on the conspiracy, Bellum Catilinae, painted Catiline as a symbol of the republic's moral decline.

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Roman Republic

Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire, Rome's control rapidly expanded during this period—from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world.

Catilinarian conspiracy

Catilinarian conspiracy

Catilinarian conspiracy or Catiline conspiracy may refer to:First Catilinarian conspiracy Second Catilinarian conspiracy

Catilinarian conspiracy

Catilinarian conspiracy

The Catilinarian conspiracy was an attempted coup d'état by Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline) to overthrow the Roman consuls of 63 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gaius Antonius Hybrida – and forcibly assume control of the state in their stead.

Sulla

Sulla

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force.

Sulla's civil war

Sulla's civil war

Sulla's civil war was fought between the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his opponents, the Cinna-Marius faction, in the years 83–81 BC. The war ended with a decisive battle just outside Rome itself. After the war the victorious Sulla made himself dictator of the republic.

Praetor

Praetor

Praetor, also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties. The functions of the magistracy, the praetura (praetorship), are described by the adjective: the praetoria potestas, the praetorium imperium, and the praetorium ius, the legal precedents established by the praetores (praetors). Praetorium, as a substantive, denoted the location from which the praetor exercised his authority, either the headquarters of his castra, the courthouse (tribunal) of his judiciary, or the city hall of his provincial governorship.

Plebeians

Plebeians

In ancient Rome, the plebeians were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners". Both classes were hereditary.

Etruria

Etruria

Etruria was a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what are now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and northern and western Umbria.

Cicero

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.

Pistoia

Pistoia

Pistoia (, Italian: [pisˈtoːja] is a city and comune in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 kilometres west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typical Italian medieval city, and it attracts many tourists, especially in the summer. The city is famous throughout Europe for its plant nurseries.

Sallust

Sallust

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar, circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline, The Jugurthine War, and the Histories remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa.

Bellum Catilinae

Bellum Catilinae

Bellum Catilinae, also called De coniuratione Catilinae, is the first history published by the Roman historian Sallust. The second historical monograph in Latin literature, it chronicles the attempted overthrow of the government by the aristocrat Catiline in 63 BC in what has been usually called the Catilinarian conspiracy.

Early life

Family background

Catiline was a member of an ancient patrician family, the gens Sergia, who claimed descend from Sergestus, a Trojan companion of Aeneas.[1] While Sallust says he was one of the nobiles,[2] which implies a consular heritage,[3] the specifics are unclear: no member of the gens Sergia had held the consulship since the second consulship of Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas Coxo in 429 BC; a few other Sergii had served in the consular tribunate, but the last was in 380 BC.[4]

The exact year of Catiline's birth is unknown. From the offices he held it can be deduced that he was born no later than 108 BC, or 106 BC if patricians enjoyed a right to hold magistracies two years earlier than plebeians.[1] Catiline's parents were Lucius Sergius Silus and Belliena.[5] His father was poor by the standards of the aristocracy.[6] His maternal uncle had served as praetor in 105 BC; earlier, Catiline's great-grandfather – Marcus Sergius Silus – had served with distinction as praetor in 197 BC during the Second Punic War.[7]

Early career

During the Social War, Catiline served under Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, along with Strabo's son – the more famous Pompey – and Cicero.[8] His specific title was not recorded.[9] This is recorded on the Asculum Inscription, a bronze tablet which was once nailed to the wall of an unknown public building in Rome, which records the names of Pompeius Strabo's council (consilium) when he granted citizenship to several auxiliaries in his army; a Lucius Sergius is mentioned there, almost certainly Catiline.[10]

He married a woman named Gratidia, one of Gaius Marius's nieces.[11] During Sulla's civil war, Catiline joined with the Sullans in 82 BC and served as a lieutenant.[12] According to many of the ancient sources, he made himself wealthy during the Sullan proscriptions by killing his brother and two of his brothers-in-law (one brother of his wife and one husband of his sister).[13] Cicero accused him of helping Quintus Lutatius Catulus avenge himself upon Catiline's wife's brother, Marcus Marius Gratidianus, the prosecutor who had caused the death of Catulus' father.[14] Cicero's account – given in a campaign speech attacking Catiline, who was a rival candidate for the consulship of 63 BC, – has Catiline beheading Gratidianus and then carrying the head through the city from the Janiculum to Sulla at the Temple of Apollo; later accounts embellish the tale, describing Catiline as engaging in gratuitous cruelties against Gratidianus, as described in later sources such as Livy, Valerius Maximus, Lucan, and Florus.[15] Some modern historians doubt Catiline was involved in Gratidianus' death except perhaps in an auxiliary role, placing blame instead on Catulus and attributing the story of Catiline's involvement to Ciceronean political slander.[16] Regardless, Catiline did engage in profiteering from the Sullan proscriptions, likely purchasing estates for fractions of their true value, and by the end of Sulla's dictatorship, he had become a rich man.[17]

In 73 BC, he may have been prosecuted for adultery – apud pontifices (before a panel of pontiffs as judges) – with a Vestal Virgin named Fabia, a half-sister of Cicero's wife Terentia. While evidence for Fabia's prosecution is clear, only Orosius mentions Catiline's prosecution.[18] Conviction would have led to execution for sacrilege. Catiline's friend Catulus – probably the president of the court and definitely one of the pontiffs – and other former consuls rallied to help Fabia, and possibly Catiline if he too was prosecuted, securing their acquittals.[19] Catiline and Cicero "must have been relieved"; Catiline, for his part, regarded himself in Catulus' debt.[20]

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Patrician (ancient Rome)

Patrician (ancient Rome)

The patricians were originally a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome. The distinction was highly significant in the Roman Kingdom, and the early Republic, but its relevance waned after the Conflict of the Orders. By the time of the late Republic and Empire, membership in the patriciate was of only nominal significance.

Nobiles

Nobiles

The nobiles were members of a social rank in the Roman Republic indicating that one was "well known". This may have changed over time: in Cicero's time, one was notable if one descended from a person who had been elected consul. In earlier periods and more broadly, this may have included a larger group consisting of those who were patricians, were descended from patricians who had become plebeians via transitio ad plebem, or were descended from plebeians who had held curule offices.

Marcus Sergius Silus

Marcus Sergius Silus

Marcus Sergius was a Roman general during the Second Punic War. He is famed in prosthetics circles as the first documented user of a prosthetic hand. The metal hand was constructed to allow him to hold his shield in battle.

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo was a Roman general and politician, who served as consul in 89 BC. He is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo, to distinguish him from his son, the famous Pompey the Great, or from Strabo the geographer.

Pompey

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a leading Roman general and statesman. He played a significant role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire. Early in his career, he was a partisan and protégé of the Roman general and dictator Sulla; later, he became the political ally, and finally the enemy, of Julius Caesar.

Cicero

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.

Gaius Marius

Gaius Marius

Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times. He was also noted for his important reforms of Roman armies. He set the precedent for the shift from the militia levies of the middle Republic to the professional soldiery of the late Republic; he also improved the pilum, a javelin, and made large-scale changes to the logistical structure of the Roman army.

Quintus Lutatius Catulus Capitolinus

Quintus Lutatius Catulus Capitolinus

Quintus Lutatius Catulus Capitolinus was a politician in the late Roman Republic. His father was the like-named Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 102 BC. He gained the agnomen "Capitolinus" for his defense of the capital in 77 BC against Lepidus.

Marcus Marius Gratidianus

Marcus Marius Gratidianus

Marcus Marius Gratidianus was a Roman praetor, and a partisan of the political faction known as the populares, led by his uncle, Gaius Marius, during the civil war between the followers of Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. As praetor, Gratidianus is known for his policy of currency reform during the economic crisis of the 80s.

Janiculum

Janiculum

The Janiculum, occasionally the Janiculan Hill, is a hill in western Rome, Italy. Although it is the second-tallest hill in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city.

Livy

Livy

Titus Livius, known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetime. He was on familiar terms with members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a friend of Augustus, whose young grandnephew, the future emperor Claudius, he exhorted to take up the writing of history.

Lucan

Lucan

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, in Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia. His youth and speed of composition set him apart from other poets.

Attempts at the consulship

Catiline served as praetor some time before 68 BC; T. R. S. Broughton in Magistrates of the Roman Republic dates the praetorship exactly to 68 BC.[21] He then served as propraetorian governor of Africa for two years (67–66 BC).[22]

Some time in the mid-60s BC, Catiline married the wealthy and beautiful Aurelia Orestilla, daughter of the consul of 71 BC, Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes; this was his second marriage.[23][24] Sallust relates that he did so not out of money, but only due to her good looks, something which Romans believed to be discreditable.[25] Cicero later claimed in his Catilinarians that Catiline murdered his first wife and Orestilla's son to make way for the match; he also claimed in In toga candida that Orestilla was Catiline's own illegitimate daughter. Cicero's allegations "cannot be taken at face value and reveal more about typical themes and slanders found in Roman invective than they do about Catiline's domestic history".[26]

Elections of 66 BC and trial

Upon his return to Rome in 66 BC, embassies from Africa protested his maladministration.[27] Catiline also attempted to stand for the consulship, but his candidacy was rejected by the presiding magistrate. Sallust and Cicero attribute the rejection to an imminent extortion trial,[28][29] but this decision may have been made in terms of the contested elections for the consulship of 65 BC: before Catiline's return to Rome, the first consular elections were held but both men elected[a] were deposed after they were both convicted of bribery; the second elections, after Catiline's return, were held with the same candidates – the two convicts excepted – returning two different consuls. Catiline's candidacy could have been rejected not due to expectations of an extortion trial, but rather for the mere fact that he was not a candidate in the first election.[31]

Following the elections, early in 65 BC, the ancient sources give contradictory descriptions of what is called a "First Catilinarian conspiracy" in which Catiline (except in Suetonius' narrative) conspired with the deposed consular candidates from the first election to recover the consulship by force. In some tellings, Catiline himself was to assume the consulship. Regardless, the supposed date of this alleged conspiracy, 5 February, came and went without incident.[32] Modern scholars overwhelmingly believe that this "First Catilinarian conspiracy" is fictitious.[33][34][35][36]

Later that year, in the second half of 65 BC (some time after 17 July), Catiline was brought to trial for corruption during his governorship. The prosecution was led by Publius Clodius Pulcher, but Catiline was defended by many influential former consuls, including one of the consuls of 65 BC (who had won in the second election; that consul also disavowed Catiline's rumoured involvement in the alleged putsch).[37] Clodius, prosecuting, may have helped Catiline out by selecting a favourable jury that would be impressed by the consulares coming to Catiline's aid.[38] But scholarly opinion on whether Clodius purposefully manipulated the proceedings for acquittal is divided.[39] In the end, the jury – composed of senators, equites, and the tribuni aerarii – divided: the senators voted for conviction, the latter two panels for acquittal. Cicero, not yet having broken with Catiline, considered defending Catiline at this trial,[40] but eventually decided not to; Catiline's advocate is unknown.[41]

Consular elections of 64 BC

Catiline's candidacy at the consular elections in 64 BC was accepted. Also standing for the consulship that year were Cicero and Gaius Antonius Hybrida; the three were the only candidates with a realistic chance of winning.[42] Catiline, bankrolled by Caesar and Crassus, distributed large bribes; after a bill against electoral bribery was defeated, Cicero gave In toga candida, a speech full of invective attacking Catiline and Antonius.[43] Antonius and Catiline were allies during the election and attempted to beat Cicero. Their strategy, however, was unsuccessful. Cicero was carried unanimously and Antonius narrowly defeated Catiline.[44]

This was also the year that Gaius Julius Caesar was president of the standing court on assassinations. His willingness – along with Cato the Younger in the treasury demanding repayment of loans from the civil wars – to pursue the beneficiaries of the Sullan civil war may have swayed voters away from supporting Catiline.[42] This may also have been reinforced by timely conviction of Catiline's maternal uncle on charges of murder during the proscriptions.[44] After the consular elections, Catiline was brought up on charges of murdering people during the proscriptions, perhaps of Gratidianus. Prosecuted by Lucius Lucceius or possibly Caesar, Catiline was again acquitted when a number of former consuls spoke in his defence.[45] There is no evidence that Caesar affected Catiline's acquittal.[46]

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Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes

Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes

Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes was a Roman politician who was elected consul in 71 BC.

First Catilinarian conspiracy

First Catilinarian conspiracy

The so-called first Catilinarian conspiracy was an almost certainly fictitious conspiracy in the late Roman Republic. According to various ancient tellings, it involved Publius Autronius Paetus, Publius Cornelius Sulla, Lucius Sergius Catilina, and others. Ancient accounts of the alleged conspiracy differ in the participants; in some tellings, Catiline is nowhere mentioned. Autronius and Sulla had been elected consuls for 65 BC but were removed after convictions for bribery. New consuls were then elected. The supposed goal of the conspiracy was to murder the second set of consuls elected for 65 BC and, in their resulting absence, replace them.

Suetonius

Suetonius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, properly titled De vita Caesarum. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.

Publius Clodius Pulcher

Publius Clodius Pulcher

Publius Clodius Pulcher was a populist Roman politician and street agitator during the time of the First Triumvirate. One of the most colourful personalities of his era, Clodius was descended from the aristocratic Claudia gens, one of Rome's oldest and noblest patrician families, but he contrived to be adopted by an obscure plebeian, so that he could be elected tribune of the plebs. During his term of office, he pushed through an ambitious legislative program, including a grain dole; but he is chiefly remembered for his long-running feuds with political opponents, particularly Cicero, whose writings offer antagonistic, detailed accounts and allegations concerning Clodius' political activities and scandalous lifestyle. Clodius was tried for the capital offence of sacrilege, following his intrusion on the women-only rites of the goddess Bona Dea, purportedly with the intention of seducing Caesar's wife Pompeia; his feud with Cicero led to Cicero's temporary exile; his feud with Milo ended in his own death at the hands of Milo's bodyguards.

Cicero

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.

Gaius Antonius Hybrida

Gaius Antonius Hybrida

Gaius Antonius Hybrida was a politician of the Roman Republic. He was the second son of Marcus Antonius and brother of Marcus Antonius Creticus; his mother is unknown. He was also the uncle of the famed triumvir Mark Antony. He had two children, Antonia Hybrida Major and Antonia Hybrida Minor.

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger

Marcus Porcius Cato "Uticensis", also known as Cato the Younger, was an influential conservative Roman senator during the late Republic. His conservative principles were focused on the preservation of what he saw as old Roman values in decline. A noted orator and a follower of Stoicism, his scrupulous honesty and professed respect for tradition gave him a powerful political following which he mobilised against powerful generals of his day.

Catilinarian conspiracy

1st century AD depiction of Cicero, consul in 63 BC with Antonius, today in the Capitoline Museum.
1st century AD depiction of Cicero, consul in 63 BC with Antonius, today in the Capitoline Museum.
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Antonius, Catiline's ally in the elections of 64 BC, joined with Cicero in a deal where he would take the wealthy and exploitable province of Macedonia (which Cicero had been given) in exchange for cooperation; he therefore broke with Catiline early in the year.[44] In early 63 BC, there no indications that Catiline was involved in a conspiracy. He was still, however, nursing hopes of an eventual consulship that would be both his birth-right and necessary for his career.

Consular elections

Bowls containing food distributed in electoral canvasses. The bowl to the right was commissioned by Lucius Cassius Longinus and distributed, filled with food, in support of Catiline's consular candidacy in 63 BC. The bowl on the left was distributed by Marcus Porcius Cato in a coeval campaign for the plebeian tribunate. Giving food to voters was common as a means to build up goodwill.[47]
Bowls containing food distributed in electoral canvasses. The bowl to the right was commissioned by Lucius Cassius Longinus and distributed, filled with food, in support of Catiline's consular candidacy in 63 BC. The bowl on the left was distributed by Marcus Porcius Cato in a coeval campaign for the plebeian tribunate. Giving food to voters was common as a means to build up goodwill.[47]

The events of the year 63 BC were not amenable for civil harmony, no matter how much Cicero as consul had been preaching it to the people. Early in the year, a proposal came before the plebs to redistribute lands; it was a proposal that would have alleviated great hardship in a time of economic hardship.[48] Cicero spoke out against it, warning of tyrannical land commissioners and painting the project as selling out the people to the beneficiaries of the Sullan proscriptions.[49] "The coming of ... the [Catilinarian] conspiracy in the months [after its defeat] was no coincidence".[50]

A trial that year for one Gaius Rabirius for the murder of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus in 100 BC, almost forty years earlier, was possibly a signal from Caesar to the senate against use of the senatus consultum ultimum (a declaration of emergency which gave the consuls political cover to break laws in suppressing civil unrest).[51] Rabirius was convicted by Caesar ("not an impartial judge") by means of an archaic procedure before appealing and then being acquitted by a similarly archaic loophole.[51] A later proposal to overturn Sulla's civil disabilities for the sons of the victims of the proscriptions also was defeated with Cicero's help; Cicero argued that repeal would cause political upheaval. This failure "drove some of the men concerned into supporting Catiline" in his conspiracy.[52]

That summer, Catiline stood again for the consulship in 63 BC; his candidacy was accepted by Cicero. Against him were three other major candidates: Decimus Junius Silanus, Lucius Licinius Murena, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus. Cicero supported Sulpicius' bid as a friend and fellow lawyer, which directly harmed Catiline's chances, since both men were patricians and therefore were legally barred from both holding the consulship.[53] Bribery was again rampant, after the senate moved again to pass legislation to stamp it out, Cicero and Antonius as consuls were successful in moving the lex Tullia increasing penalties and enumerating forbidden electoral practices.[54]

Just before the elections, Cicero alleges Catiline engaged in demagoguery and attempted to build up his bona fides with the poor and dispossessed men of Rome and Italy, including himself among their number,[55] advocating the wholescale abolition of all existing debts (tabulae novae).[56] At the electoral comitia, Cicero presided, surrounded by a bodyguard and wearing an ostentatious cuirass to signal his belief that Catiline posed a threat to his person and public safety.[57] Sallust reports that Catiline promised his supporters that he would kill the rich but this supposed promise is likely ahistorical.[58] No contemporary source indicates that Catiline supported land reform.[59] The comitia returned as consuls-designate Decimus Junius Silanus and Lucius Licinius Murena.[60] After his second defeat, Catiline seems to have run out of money and must have been abandoned by his former supporters such as Crassus and Caesar.[61]

Conspiracy

On 18 or 19 October, Crassus and two other senators visited Cicero's house on the Oppian Hill (near the ruins of the Colosseum) and delivered to the consuls anonymous letters warning that Catiline was planning a massacre of leading politicians and advising them to leave the city. Cicero convened the senate and had them read aloud.[57] A few days later, on the 21st or 22nd, an ex-praetor reported news that an ex-Sullan centurion – Gaius Manlius – who had supported Catiline's bid for the consulship had raised an army in Etruria.[62] The senate acted immediately, usually dated to the 21st, to pass a senatus consultum ultimum directing the consuls to take whatever actions they believed necessary for state security. When news of the decree arrived to Manlius, he declared an open rebellion.[62]

Some modern scholars reject a connection between Manlius and Catiline at this early point, arguing that Manlius' rebellion may have been separate from Catiline's alleged conspiracy and that the conspiracy only came into actual fruition when Catiline joined Manlius' rebellion when leaving Rome for exile and seeing nothing to lose. There are, however, no indications of this in the ancient sources.[63]

Catiline's indebtedness – if he was in fact indebted, there is little evidence one way or the other,[64] – was not the sole cause of his conspiring: "wounded pride and fierce ambition" played a great role in his decision-making.[65] Many of the senatorial members of the conspiracy were men who had been ejected from the senate for immorality, corruption, or seen their careers stall out (especially in attempts to reach the consulship).[66] The men who joined Manlius' rebellion were largely two groups: poor farmers who had been dispossessed by Sulla's confiscations after the civil war and ruined Sullan veterans seeking more riches.[67] Cicero, in his invectives, naturally focused on the ruined Sullan veterans, who were unpopular; but at the end, Catiline likely kept only the support of the dispossessed Etruscans who had "nowhere else to go".[68] Altogether, these men had mixed backgrounds and no "single-minded purpose [can] readily be ascribed" to them.[69]

Flight from the city

Cesare Maccari's famous 19th century depiction of Cicero denouncing Catiline before the senate. Beard 2015, pp. 31–33 notes that this idealised depiction is "no more than a seductive fantasy". Both men at the time were in their forties; the senate also was far larger and its building was more dull.
Cesare Maccari's famous 19th century depiction of Cicero denouncing Catiline before the senate. Beard 2015, pp. 31–33 notes that this idealised depiction is "no more than a seductive fantasy". Both men at the time were in their forties; the senate also was far larger and its building was more dull.

While the consuls fortified central Italy, reports also filtered in of slave revolts in the south. Two generals[b] who were waiting for their triumphs to be approved were then dispatched with men to garrison the northern approaches to Rome and southern Italy.[70] Catiline remained in Rome, as "there was as yet no evidence to incriminate him... the letters sent to Crassus had been anonymous, and so proved nothing".[70]

On 6 November, Catiline held a secret meeting in Rome at the house of Marcus Porcius Laeca where he planned to go to Manlius' army, for other members of the conspiracy to take charge of the nascent revolts elsewhere in Italy, for conspirators in Rome to set fires in the city, and for two specific conspirators to assassinate Cicero the next morning.[71] Cicero exaggerates Catiline's supposed intention to raze the city as a means to turn the urban population against him – a story further embellished in Plutarch[72] – it is more likely that Catiline's fires were intended only to create exploitable confusion for his army.[71]

The next day, on 7 November, the assassins found Cicero's house shut against them and Cicero convened the senate later that day at the Temple of Jupiter Stator reporting the threat to his life and then delivering the First Catilinarian denouncing Catiline. Catiline, who was already planning to leave the city, offered to go into exile if the senate would so decree. After Cicero refused to bring up such a motion, Catiline protested his innocence and insulted Cicero's ancestry, calling him a "squatter".[73] He thereafter left the city, claiming that he was going into voluntary exile at Massilia "to spare his country a civil war".[74] On his departure, he sent a letter to his old friend and ally Quintus Lutatius Catulus Capitolinus, which Sallust copied into Bellum Catilinae.[75] In the letter, Catiline defends himself as an injured party who took up the cause of the less fortunate in accordance with his patrician forebears' custom; he vehemently denies that he goes into exile due to his debts and commits his wife Orestilla to Catulus' care.[76]

He left the city on the road to Massilia, but in Etruria, he went to a weapons cache before diverting for Faesulae where he met up with Manlius' forces. Upon his arrival, he proclaimed himself consul and adopted consular regalia. When news of this reached Rome, the senate declared Catiline and Manlius hostes (public enemies) and dispatched Antonius at the head of an army to subdue him.[77]

Death

Alcide Segoni's Discovery of the Body of Catiline (1871). In the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence.
Alcide Segoni's Discovery of the Body of Catiline (1871). In the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence.
Denarius minted by Lucius Scribonius Libo in 62 BC. The portrayal of Bonus Eventus on the obverse likely commemorates the destruction of the Catilinarian rebels.[78]
Denarius minted by Lucius Scribonius Libo in 62 BC. The portrayal of Bonus Eventus on the obverse likely commemorates the destruction of the Catilinarian rebels.[78]
Denarius minted by Lucius Aemilius Paullus in 62 BC depicting the goddess Concordia; Berry 2020, p. 54 argues that Paullus viewed Catiline's defeat as "a restoration of national harmony".
Denarius minted by Lucius Aemilius Paullus in 62 BC depicting the goddess Concordia; Berry 2020, p. 54 argues that Paullus viewed Catiline's defeat as "a restoration of national harmony".
Further information: Battle of Pistoria

In late November, Antonius' forces approached from the south. He decamped from Faesulae and moved near the mountains but remained close enough to the town to be in striking distance. When Antonius' forces arrived in the vicinity of the town, he avoided battle.[79]

Catiline's coconspirators in Rome had been caught out by Cicero with the aid of some Gallic envoys.[80] After a fierce senate debate, they were executed without trial on 5 December.[81] When news of their death arrived to Catiline's camp, much of his army melted away, leaving him with perhaps a bit more than three thousand men. Hoping to escape into Gaul, his escape from Italy was blocked when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer – proconsul in Cisalpine Gaul[82] – garrisoned the Apennine passes near Bononia.[83]

Antonius kept his men relatively docile near Faesulae, but after he received reinforcements from then-quaestor Publius Sestius in the last days of December, he moved out. Catiline, for his part, seeing his escape blocked, turned south to face Antonius, perhaps believing that Antonius would not fight as hard. They met at Pistoria, modern day Pistoia. Descending from the heights, he offered battle to Antonius' army, possibly on 3 January 62 BC.[84]

On the day of the battle, Antonius gave operational command to Marcus Petreius (Sallust claims he was stricken with gout[85]), an experienced lieutenant,[86] who broke through the Catilinarian centre with the praetorian cohort, forcing Catiline's men to flight.[87] Catiline and his diehard supporters fought bravely and were annihilated:[88] "they were desperate men who did not wish to survive their defeat".[86]

Sallust's account reads:

When the battle was ended it became evident what boldness and resolution had pervaded Catiline's army. For almost every man covered with his body, when life was gone, the position which he had taken when alive at the beginning of the conflict. A few, indeed, in the centre, whom the praetorian cohort had scattered, lay a little apart from the rest, but the wounds even of these were in front. But Catiline was found far in advance of his men amid a heap of slain foemen, still breathing slightly, and showing in his face the indomitable spirit which had animated him when alive.[89]

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In Roman literature, Catiline's figure became often used as a byword for "villainy".[90] Politicians quickly distanced themselves from his failed revolt; others tried to discredit rivals by linking them to Catiline's conspiracy after the fact.[91] Cicero, who claimed for himself the credit of saving the state from Catiline's revolt, later praised Catiline's personal qualities in a defence speech for someone accused of being a co-conspirator: Cicero paints Catiline as a good motivator, effective general, sociable, and strong as reasons for why so many men were willing to associate with him (for Cicero's client, however, only as a non-conspiring friend).[92][93] The history of Sallust, written around the time of the Second Triumvirate, painted Catiline as a thoroughgoing disrepute who had from an early time wanted to destroy his own country and symbolised the moral decline that Sallust identified as the cause of the republic's collapse:

S. [Sallust] prefers to present Catiline as a through-going villain, the product of the corrupt age, who was bent on the destruction of the state from the very beginning...[94]

Livy used the Catilinarian conspiracy as a template to fill in shaky portions of early Roman history. For example, the conspiracy of one Marcus Manlius, who rose up against the elite with the support of poor plebs, both gives a speech patterned on Cicero's First Catilinarian and takes actions patterned on the real Catiline's.[95] Virgil, in the Aeneid (written during the reign of Augustus), depicts Catiline as being tortured in the underworld by the Furies.[95][96]

Into the imperial period, Catiline's name was used as a derogatory nickname of unpopular ruling emperors.[90] However, his reputation as an advocate for the dispossessed rural plebs seemed to carry to some degree in rural parts of northern Italy at least until the mediaeval period. In Tuscany, a mediaeval tradition had Catiline survive the battle and live out his life as a local hero; another version gives him a son, Uberto, who eventually spawns the Uberti dynasty in Florence.[97]

While history has often viewed Catiline through the lenses of his enemies – especially in the vein of Cicero's four Catilinarians – some modern historians have reassessed Catiline. The first major attempt was Edward Spencer Beesly in 1878, who argued against the then-prevailing view that Catiline was "a demon breathing murder, rapine, and conflagration, with bloodshot eyes and pallid face, luring on weak and depraved young men to the damnation prepared for himself".[98] Beesly's defences have been followed more recently by others, such as Waters 1970 and Seager 1973. Waters' admittedly "largely hypothetical"[99] narrative depicts the Catilinarian conspiracy largely as a Ciceronean fiction framing Catiline and the "co-conspirators" for Cicero's own political advancement.[100] Seager's defence does not go so far, but instead argues the conspiracy was purposefully incited by Cicero and the senate to purge Italy of men who might join with Pompey if he were to follow in Sulla's footsteps on his then-imminent return from the Third Mithridatic War.

Other classicists have argued that Catiline was a precursor of Caesar or that he rebelled to oppose senatorial corruption and incompetence.[c] But, largely, such defences are highly speculative, as the literary evidence that survives is overwhelmingly Ciceronean and biased against Catiline.[101]

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Title page of Ben Jonson's 1611 tragedy from a folio version in 1692.
Title page of Ben Jonson's 1611 tragedy from a folio version in 1692.
  • At least two major dramatists have written tragedies about Catiline: Ben Jonson, the English Jacobean playwright, wrote Catiline His Conspiracy in 1611, depicting Catiline as "a sadistic anti-hero";[102] Catiline was the first play by the Norwegian "father of modern drama" Henrik Ibsen, written in the aftermath of the 1848 revolutions and depicting Catiline as hero struggling against his world's corruption.[97]
  • Antonio Salieri wrote an opera tragicomica in two acts on the subject of the Catilinarian conspiracy entitled Catilina to a libretto by Giambattista Casti in 1792. The work was left unperformed until 1994 due to its political implications during the French Revolution. Here, serious drama and politics were blended with high and low comedy: the plot centered on a love affair between Catiline and a daughter of Cicero as well as the historic political situation.
  • Steven Saylor's 1993 novel Catilina's Riddle revolves around the intrigue between Catiline and Cicero in 63 BC. Catiline also plays a major character in Steven Saylor's short story "The House of the Vestals".
  • Catiline's conspiracy and Cicero's consular actions figure prominently in the novel Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough as a part of her Masters of Rome series.
  • SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy, by John Maddox Roberts, discusses Catiline's conspiracy.
  • Robert Harris' 2006 book Imperium, based on Cicero's letters, covers the developing career of Cicero with many references to his increasing interactions with Catiline. The sequel, Lustrum (issued in the United States as Conspirata), deals with the five years surrounding the Catilinarian conspiracy.
  • The Roman Traitor or the Days of Cicero, Cato and Catiline: A True Tale of the Republic by Henry William Herbert originally published in 1853 in two volumes.
  • A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell, published in 1965, tells of the life of Cicero, especially in relation to Catiline and his conspiracy.
  • A Slave Of Catiline is a book by Paul Anderson that tells of a slave who helps and then hinders Catiline's conspiracy.
  • A novel on the conspiracy, The Fall of the Republic, written by Scott Savitz, was published in September 2020.
  • Bertolt Brecht's unfinished novel The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar provides a fictionalised account of the Catilinarian conspiracy in which Caesar and Crassus are alleged to be involved for financial gain.

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Notes
  1. ^ The first consular comitia of 66 BC returned Publius Autronius Paetus and Publius Cornelius Sulla. The second comitia, from which Catiline was excluded, returned Lucius Manlius Torquatus and Lucius Aurelius Cotta.[30]
  2. ^ The two generals were Quintus Marcius Rex and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus; they had served as consul in 68 and 69 BC, respectively.[70]
  3. ^ Berry 2020, p. 3 n. 4, citing:
    • Kaplan, Arthur (1968). Catiline: the man and his role in the Roman revolution. Exposition Press. ("Catiline as a precursor of Caesar")
    • Fini, Massimo (1996). Catilina: ritratto di un uomo in rivolta (in Italian). Milan. ISBN 8-8044-0494-9. OCLC 36751571. ("Catiline as the opponent of senatorial corruption")
    • Galassi, Francis (2014). Catiline, the monster of Rome. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5941-6583-2. ("too full of errors to make an effective case"; very negatively reviewed at Fletcher, KFB (2015-01-30). "Review of: Catiline, the monster of Rome". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.)
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Citations

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  3. ^ Badian 2012a.
  4. ^ See Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic s.v. "Sergius".
  5. ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 61.
  6. ^ Münzer, Friedrich (1927). "Sergius 39". Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (in German). Vol. II A, 2. Stuttgart: Butcher. col. 1719.
  7. ^ Berry 2020, pp. 10–11.
  8. ^ Badian 2012b.
  9. ^ Taylor 1960, p. 253, citing ILS 8888.
  10. ^ Taylor 1960, p. 253.
  11. ^ Marshall 1985, p. 127.
  12. ^ Badian 2012b; Broughton 1952, p. 72.
  13. ^ Broughton 1952, p. 72.
  14. ^ Broughton 1952, p. 72; Zmeskal 2009, p. 61.
  15. ^ Marshall 1985, pp. 124–25.
  16. ^ Marshall 1985, pp. 132–33; Berry 2020, pp. 12–13 ("There are good reasons for thinking that Catiline was not the man responsible for the execution and that Gratidianus was actually killed by Catiline's friend ... Catulus").
  17. ^ Berry 2020, p. 13.
  18. ^ Alexander 1990, p. 83.
  19. ^ Alexander 1990, p. 83; Berry 2020, p. 14; Broughton 1952, p. 114.
  20. ^ Berry 2020, p. 14, citing Asc. 91C, commenting "Cicero alluded to the trial in In toga candida in a way that ingeniously implied both Fabia's innocence and Catiline's guilt".
  21. ^ Broughton 1952, pp. 138, 141 (footnote noting that it must have been in or before 68 BC)..
  22. ^ Broughton 1952, p. 617. Entry in index of offices: "Leg., Lieut. 82, Pr. 68, Propr. Africa 67–66."
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  26. ^ Berry 2020, pp. 18–19.
  27. ^ Broughton 1952, p. 147.
  28. ^ Wiseman 1992, p. 340.
  29. ^ Broughton 1952, p. 147, citing Sall. Cat., 18.3 and Cic. Cael. 10.
  30. ^ Seager 1964, p. 338; Broughton 1952, p. 157.
  31. ^ Seager 1964, pp. 338–39.
  32. ^ Wiseman 1992, p. 342.
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  34. ^ Phillips 1976, p. 441. "It is clear that so-called First Catilinarian conspiracy... is fictitious".
  35. ^ Waters 1970, "I shall not discuss the once believed-in "First Catilinarian conspiracy", a phantom now, it is to be hoped, exorcised for ever".
  36. ^ Seager 1964, p. 338 n. 1. "It is now widely held that the conspiracy is wholly fictitious".
  37. ^ Wiseman 1992, p. 342.
  38. ^ Wiseman 1992, p. 345.
  39. ^ Alexander 1990, pp. 106–07, n. 3, "Cicero's statement (Att. 1.2.1) ... has been taken to suggest that the prosecutor was working with the defence to secure an acquittal. Gruen (Athenaeum 1971) 59–62, however, argues that Clodius [the prosecutor] did not commit praevaricatio".
  40. ^ Cic. Att. 1.2.
  41. ^ Alexander 1990, pp. 106–07.
  42. ^ a b Wiseman 1992, p. 348.
  43. ^ Berry 2020, p. 19.
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  56. ^ Berry 2020, p. 29.
  57. ^ a b Berry 2020, p. 31.
  58. ^ Berry 2020, p. 30.
  59. ^ Gruen 1995, p. 429 n. 110.
  60. ^ Broughton 1952, p. 172.
  61. ^ Berry 2020, pp. 26, 30.
  62. ^ a b Berry 2020, p. 32.
  63. ^ Berry 2020, p. 32; Seager 1973, pp. 240–41; Waters 1970, p. 201.
  64. ^ Waters 1970, p. 213 n. 43.
  65. ^ Gruen 1995, p. 420.
  66. ^ Gruen 1995, pp. 417–19.
  67. ^ Gruen 1995, pp. 424–25.
  68. ^ Berry 2020, p. 28.
  69. ^ Gruen 1995, p. 422.
  70. ^ a b c Berry 2020, p. 33.
  71. ^ a b Berry 2020, p. 34.
  72. ^ Berry 2020, p. 34, citing Plut. Cic. 18.2, which reports a "not credible" scheme involving a hundred men to raze the whole city.
  73. ^ Berry 2020, p. 36, citing Sall. Cat., 31.7–8.
  74. ^ Berry 2020, p. 37.
  75. ^ Berry 2020, p. 38, citing Sall. Cat., 35.
  76. ^ Berry 2020, pp. 38–41.
  77. ^ Berry 2020, p. 42.
  78. ^ Crawford 1974, pp. 441–42; Berry 2020, pp. 52–53.
  79. ^ Sumner 1963, p. 215.
  80. ^ Berry 2020, pp. 42–46.
  81. ^ Berry 2020, p. 50.
  82. ^ Broughton 1952, p. 176.
  83. ^ Sumner 1963, pp. 215–16.
  84. ^ Sumner 1963, p. 217.
  85. ^ Sall. Cat., 59.4.
  86. ^ a b Wiseman 1992, p. 360.
  87. ^ Sall. Cat., 60.
  88. ^ Berry 2020, p. 52.
  89. ^ Sall. Cat., 61.
  90. ^ a b Beard 2015, p. 42.
  91. ^ Gruen, Erich S. (1969). "Notes on the "First Catilinarian Conspiracy"". Classical Philology. 64 (1): 21. doi:10.1086/365439. ISSN 0009-837X. JSTOR 268006. S2CID 162267188.
  92. ^ Berry 2020, pp. 5–7.
  93. ^ See generally Cic. Cael.
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