Catilinarian

[ kat-l-uh-nair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or resembling Catiline.

noun

1. a person who participated in Catiline's conspiracy.
2. a person who resembles or imitates Catiline; conspirator.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Catilinarian¹

1815–25; < Latin Catilin ( a ) Catiline + -arian

Example Sentences

Little else is known of him except that he declared in favour of the death punishment for the Catilinarian conspirators.

From Project Gutenberg

This omission, which may have originated partly in enmity, and partly in disgust at the ill-disguised vanity of the Consul, has in all times been regarded as the chief defect, and even stain, in the history of the Catilinarian conspiracy.

From Project Gutenberg

Through the whole series of the Catilinarian orations, the language of Cicero is well calculated to overawe the wicked, to confirm the good, and encourage the timid.

From Project Gutenberg

Such, indeed, is the vehement pathos, and such the resources employed to excite pity in favour of the oppressed, and indignation against the guilty, that the genius of the orator is nowhere more conspicuously displayed—not even in the Philippics or Catilinarian harangues.

From Project Gutenberg

The cause was neither farther prosecuted at this time, nor subsequently revived; the public attention being now completely engrossed by the imminent dangers of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, which was discovered during the Consulship of Cicero.

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