Catilinarian

comparative more Catilinarian · superlative most Catilinarian

1. Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator who attempted to overthrow the Roman Empire; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.

   Catilinarian War

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   Catilinarian conspiracy

   We cannot execrate the conspirators who murdered Cæsar as we would do those who might now plot the death of a tyrant; nor can we deal as heavily with the murderers of Cæsar as we would have done then with Catilinarian conspirators in Rome, had Catiline's conspiracy succeeded.

   1880, Anthony Trollope, The Life of Cicero, volume I

   Synonyms: Catilinian