英语词汇catiline的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Catiline; Catilinarian. Catiline’s conspiracy (64 b.c.) gives us the term Catiline for a conspirator or plotter against the government. Lucius Sergius Catiline (ca. 108–62 b.c.), already guilty of at least one murder and extortion, had plotted with other nobles to kill the consuls, plunder the treasury, and set Rome on fire, but Cicero’s eloquent Catilinarian oration alert- ed the public, foiling the conspirators. Catiline, sentenced to death, attempted to escape but was defeated in battle by Anto- nius and slain near Pistoria. Catiline represented himself as a democrat who would cancel all debts and outlaw all wealthy citizens. Ironically, Julius Caesar, the victim of assassins him- self 20 years later, was probably a party to the planned assassinations.

词汇	catiline
词源	Catiline; Catilinarian. Catiline’s conspiracy (64 b.c.) gives us the term Catiline for a conspirator or plotter against the government. Lucius Sergius Catiline (ca. 108–62 b.c.), already guilty of at least one murder and extortion, had plotted with other nobles to kill the consuls, plunder the treasury, and set Rome on fire, but Cicero’s eloquent Catilinarian oration alert- ed the public, foiling the conspirators. Catiline, sentenced to death, attempted to escape but was defeated in battle by Anto- nius and slain near Pistoria. Catiline represented himself as a democrat who would cancel all debts and outlaw all wealthy citizens. Ironically, Julius Caesar, the victim of assassins him- self 20 years later, was probably a party to the planned assassinations.
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