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The Catilinarian Conspiracy: Cicero vs Catiline
In 63 BC, Rome faced its most dangerous internal threat since the Gauls sacked the city. The conspiracy of Lucius Sergius Catilina, a debt-ridden patrician turned revolutionary, aimed to overthrow the Senate and install a regime of populist terror. The consul Marcus Tullius Cicero uncovered the plot, delivered his famous 'First Catilinarian Oration' in the Senate, and forced Catiline to flee Rome. But the conspiracy didn't end there. Cicero's allies intercepted letters from Catiline's co-conspirators, the Allobroges delegation from Gaul, and with the backing of the…
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