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The Catilinarian orations (Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls. The speeches are all related to the discovery, investigation, and suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, a plot that year to overthrow the ...
The writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constitute one of the most renowned collections of historical and philosophical work in all of classical antiquity. Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and constitutionalist who lived during the years of 106–43 BC.
M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationes in Catilinam: Marcus Tullius Cicero's Orations against Catiline: Cicero denounces Catiline, who attempted a failed coup against the Roman Republic. [a] Cicero: 63 BCE [4] [5] Cato the Elder's speech directed towards the Seleucid king: Cato addresses the Seleucid King in Athens. Cato the Elder: Uncertain date [6] [7 ...
Catiline was a member of an ancient patrician family, the gens Sergia, who claimed descent from Sergestus, a Trojan companion of Aeneas. [2] While Sallust says he was one of the nobiles, [3] which implies a consular heritage, [4] 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 ...
Portrait of Pompey the Great. De Imperio Cn. Pompei ("On the Imperium of Gnaeus Pompeius"), also known as Pro Lege Manilia ("In Favour of the Manilian Law"), was a speech delivered by Cicero in 66 BC before the Roman popular assembly. [1]
Bellum Catilinae (War of Catiline), also called De coniuratione Catilinae (Conspiracy of Catiline), is the first history published by the Roman historian Sallust.The second historical monograph in Latin literature, [1] it chronicles the attempted overthrow of the government by the aristocrat Catiline in 63 BC in what has been usually called the Catilinarian conspiracy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ s ə r oʊ / SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, [4] who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. [5]
De Finibus, English translation by Harris Rackham, LacusCurtius; Side by Side Latin and English, transl. by Harris Rackham, Google Books; On the Ends of Good and Evil, english translation by Harris Rackham public domain audiobook at LibriVox