Catiline Conspiracy

Question 1

65BC

Answer 1

Catiline runs for consulship and fails

Question 2

64Bc

Answer 2

Catiline and Cicero run for Consulship, Catiline fails, Cicero succeeds (for 63BC consulship)

Question 3

Catiline’s familly

Answer 3

Sergia
aristocratic
well known and prestigious

Question 4

Catiline’s past

Answer 4

good military career

not supported by aristocracy

Question 5

Catiline’s reason for overthrowing the government

Answer 5

He had massive debts

Question 6

Catiline’s army

Answer 6

A great amount of Sulla’s Veterans that were eager for Civil war

Question 7

Kind of people Catiline was amassing around him

Answer 7

criminals that were in debt
sulla’s veterans
The Etrurian populace had lost their lands and property during Sulla’s supremacy (Manlius was working on them)

Question 8

why was this a golden opportunity for Catiline to strike

Answer 8

Pompeius was away waging wars
no army in Rome
Catiline had high hopes for the consulship

Question 9

Catiline’s promises

Answer 9

abolition of debt
the proscription of the rich
offices
priesthoods
plunder from war

Question 10

Cicero sounds desperate

Answer 10

“O immortal gods! where in the world are we? In what city are we living? What kind of state do we have?”

Question 11

Cicero offers Catiline the option to leave the city

Answer 11

“Leave this city at last; the gates are open: set out. that Manlian camp of yours has been waiting too long for you its general. Lead out with you also all your men, if not at all, as many as possible; purge the city; you will free me from great fear, provided that there is a wall between me and you”

Question 12

Cicero expels Catiline

Answer 12

“Among us you can now dwell no longer– I will not bear it, I will not permit it, I will not tolerate it.”

Question 13

Catiline is a constant threat

Answer 13

“the leader of the enemies within the city walls and even in the senate, planning every day some internal destruction for the state”

Question 14

Cicero says he wont have Catiline killed because some would be against it and because he will die anyway

Answer 14

“you will be killed, finally, then, when no-one so wicked, so dissolute, so like yourself can be found any longer”
notice the use of “finally”
and the “wicked, dissolute, yourself”

Question 15

The horror of a dictatorship

Answer 15

“think of the proscriptions and dictatorships; for such horror of these times is ingrained into the city”