Catiline
Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina),of patrician, but not recently distinguished, family, served with Pompey and Cicero under Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War (91–89 BC: see Rome (history) §1.5). He next appears as a lieutenant of Sulla both in the bellum Sullanum after Sulla's invasion of Italy and in the proscriptions when, incited by Quintus Lutatius Catulus, he killed his brother-in-law Marcus Marius Gratidianus. There is no further record of him until his praetorship (68 BC), after which he governed Africa for two years. Prosecuted repetundarum (i.e. on a charge of provincial extortion) on his return, he was prevented from standing for the consulship for 65 and 64, but was finally acquitted with the help of his prosecutor P. Clodius Pulcher. In 66/5 he...
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