…defeat and death of Lucius Sergius Catilina

by Alessandro Ferrini

Lucius Sergius Catilina was born in Rome in 108 BC, at the beginning of a century tormented by wars and civil strife that marked the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Principate.

Descended from a noble and ancient Roman family, nobili genere natus, – as the historian Sallust defines him – fuit magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque, after having tried to be elected consul in the ranks of the populares twice without success, opposed in every way by the optimates and the machinations of Cicero, in 63 he decided to organize a conspiracy and attempt a coup d’état to seize power. The conspiracy was discovered by Cicero, then consul in office, many conspirators were arrested and sentenced to death but Catilina managed to escape towards Etruria …

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