Catilina, Lucius Sergius, also called Catiline c.108-62BC
Roman conspirator

An impoverished patrician, and adherent of Lucius Sulla, he was elected praetor in 68BC, and next year Governor of Africa, but was disqualified from the consulship in 66 on charges of maladministration. Disappointed and crippled by debt, he entered into a conspiracy with other Roman nobles. In 63 he planned a complete revolution, and the assassination of Cicero and the hostile senators. Cicero discovered the plans and defeated the assassins; two days later, when Catilina appeared in the Senate, Cicero denounced him. Catilina's reply was drowned in jeers. He escaped from Rome, but some of the conspirators were arrested and executed. Insurrections in several parts of Italy were suppressed, and Catilina was defeated and killed by republican forces at Pistoria (now Pistoia).