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Catiline

Catiline, Roman senator and conspirator. This site has 2 entries involving Catiline, listed in chronological order with the Roman date and calendar of each.

  1. November 1 · Kal. Nov. · Pre-reform Roman calendar
    Catiline's night attack on Praeneste foiled (63 BC)
  2. December 3 · a.d. III Non. Dec. · Pre-reform Roman calendar
    Catilinarian conspirators arrested (63 BC)
LATIN LINE OF THE DAY

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura quae legis hic.

“Some are good, some middling, more are bad, of what you read here.”

Martial, Epigrams 1.16 · translation ours (literal)