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Catiline

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Cat·i·line  (ktl-n) Originally Lucius Sergius Catilina. 108?-62 b.c.
Roman politician and conspirator who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic while Cicero was a consul.
Catiline [ˈkætɪˌlaɪn]
n
(Biographies / Catiline (?108 bc-62 bc) M, Roman, POLITICS: politician, POLITICS: conspirator) Latin name Lucius Sergius Catilina. ?108-62 bc, Roman politician: organized an unsuccessful conspiracy against Cicero (63-62)
Catilinarian  [ˌkætɪlɪˈnɛərɪən] adj
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Catiline [ˈkætɪˌlaɪn] n → Catilina m
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57) The choice of Jonson's Catiline is not accidental; the play is about an attempt to usurp imperial power.
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The Pope not only enriches himself at the expense of the republic, as neither Verres nor Catiline nor any other embezzler dared to do, but he enriches himself at the expense of even the church and the Holy Spirit as old Simon Magus himself would abhor doing.
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In time, Hamilton and other Federalists cast Burr as a sexual reprobate at the center of a circle of loose men, a new Catiline, an allusion that the Sallust-reading political elite of the Early Republic clearly understood.
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