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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| In such an environment, Rome became an easy target for political conspiracies like that of Catiline, which exploited the criminal elements in Rome to carry out bribery, blackmail, and assassination. In Loewenstein's view, Jonson's achievement in the 1616 Folio is fully anticipated by his important quartos of Sejanus, Volpone (1606), and Catiline (1611), which construct an ideal readership detached from the vagaries of theatrical performance. Sallust, who does not use the term, makes a clear reference to it when, in giving an account of the Catiline conspiracy, he describes how there was passed around a drink comprising wine mixed with human blood ("humani corporis sanguinem vino permixtum"), a ceremony commonly performed, he says, in solemn religious rites ("sicuti in sollemnibus sacris fieri consuevit"--Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, [section] 22; Goodenough, vol. |
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) Originally Lucius Sergius Catilina. 108?-62 b.c.