Catiline
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Catiline
- Lucius Sergius Catilina (108 BCE–62 BCE), a Roman politician who attempted to overthrow the Roman Republic.
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Catiline (plural Catilines)
- A daring and reckless conspirator.
- 1913 [1912], Bernard Miall, transl., The Psychology of Revolution, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, translation of La Révolution Française et la Psychologie des Révolutions by Gustave Le Bon, page 325:
- But such lessons will not affect the numerous Catilines of the present day.