Timeline of the Catilinian Conspiracy Flashcards
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Catiline returns from his praetorship in Africa
African ambassadors accuse him of misrule
66
Cicero elected praetor
65
Cicero campaigns for consul
Catiline was unable to run for consul because he was on trial for misrule in Africa
64
Cicero is re-elected as consul
Catiline runs for consul against Cicero and Antoninus (and more); lost because of the lack of support from the optimates
64-63
Cicero is consul designate
63
Cicero is Consul
Catiline turns to the poor for support by endorsing the canceling of debts (novae tabellae)
19, October, 63
Cicero calls a meeting of the Senate to present vague suspicions of Manlius’s rebellion at Faesulae
Catiline had rallied men and troops for a rebellion; info leaked
21, October, 63
a worried senate passes the sanatus consultum ultimum (SCU)
6, November, 63
Catiline calls a meeting to parcel out commands throughout Rome and Italy, arranges Cicero’s murder
7, November, 63
Cicero expects the assassins and has guards to send them away
8, November, 63
Cicero calls a meeting at he temple of Jupiter Stator and delivers the First Catilinian Oration (With Catiline in the Room)
Catiline flees to Faestulae
9, November, 63
Cicero delivers the Second Catilinian Oration
Mid-November, 63
Catiline and Gaius Manlius are declared hostes (enemies of the state) by the senate
Early December, 63
Allobroges are fake-arrested after plotting with the senate and Cicero to use them as double agents and Cicero gains written proof of the conspiracy
conspirators confess and Cicero delivers the third Catilinian Oration (the next day they are declared contra rem publicam)
5, December, 63
meeting is help to determine their punishment, immediate execution is the favorite, but Cicero insists on the death penalty in the Fourth Catilinian Oration
