History · 1852

The Conspiracy of Catiline

De Coniuratione Catilinae, on the plot of 63 BC

by Sallust

Translated by John Selby Watson (1852)

Sallust’s account of the conspiracy of Lucius Sergius Catiline, a ruined patrician who plotted to seize Rome in 63 BC, and of its exposure by the consul Cicero, with the speeches of Caesar and Cato on the fate of the conspirators and Catiline’s death in battle.


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