{"id":15510,"date":"2020-01-27T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=15510"},"modified":"2019-12-15T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T05:07:47","slug":"sylum-inspiration-lucius-sergius-catilina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-lucius-sergius-catilina\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: Lucius Sergius Catilina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vampire Council: Member<\/h2>\n

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Catiline<\/a> was born in 108 BC to one of the oldest patrician families in Rome,\u00a0g<\/a>ens Sergia. His parents were Lucius Sergius Silus and Belliena.<\/sup>\u00a0Although his family was of consular heritage, they were then declining in both social and financial fortunes.\u00a0Virgil\u00a0later gave the family an ancestor,\u00a0Sergestus, who had come with\u00a0Aeneas\u00a0to Italy, presumably because they were notably ancient; but they had not been prominent for centuries. The last Sergius to be\u00a0consul had been Gnaeus Sergius Fidenas Coxo in 380 BC.\u00a0His great-grandfather was\u00a0Marcus Sergius. Later, these factors would dramatically shape Catiline’s ambitions and goals as he would desire above all else to restore the political heritage of his family along with its financial power.<\/sup><\/p>\n

An able commander, Catiline had a distinguished military career.<\/sup>\u00a0In 89 BC, during the\u00a0Social War, he served with\u00a0Pompey\u00a0and\u00a0Cicero, under the\u00a0consul\u00a0Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo. He is mentioned on the\u00a0Asculum Inscription<\/i>, a bronze tablet which was once nailed to the wall of an unknown public building in Rome, which records the names of Pompey Strabo’s council (consilium) when he granted citizenship to several auxiliaries in his army. During the regime of Gaius Marius,\u00a0Lucius Cornelius Cinna\u00a0and\u00a0Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, Catiline played no major role, but he remained politically secure, married to the niece of Gaius Marius. He later supported\u00a0Lucius Cornelius Sulla\u00a0in the civil war of 84\u201381 BC. According to accusations made by Cicero, during\u00a0Sulla’s proscription\u00a0Catiline helped\u00a0Quintus Lutatius Catulus\u00a0avenge himself upon Catiline’s brother-in-law,\u00a0Marcus Marius Gratidianus, the prosecutor who had caused the death of\u00a0his father. Catiline maimed and killed his brother-in-law at the tomb of the elder Catulus, then decapitated the corpse.<\/sup>\u00a0Catiline proceeded to carry the head through the streets of Rome and deposited it at Sulla’s feet at the Temple of Apollo. Catiline was also accused of murdering his first wife and son so that he could marry the wealthy and beautiful\u00a0Aurelia Orestilla, daughter of the consul of 71 BC,\u00a0Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes. In the early 70s BC he served abroad, possibly with\u00a0Publius Servilius Vatia\u00a0in\u00a0Cilicia. In 73 BC, he was brought to trial for adultery with a\u00a0Vestal Virgin, a capital crime. Catulus, by then the principal leader of the\u00a0Optimates, testified in his favor. Catiline was acquitted.<\/sup><\/p>\n

He was\u00a0praetor\u00a0in 68 BC, and for the following two years was the propraetorian governor for\u00a0Africa.<\/sup>\u00a0Upon his return home in 66 BC, he presented himself as a candidate for the\u00a0consular elections, but a delegation from Africa appealing to the Senate, indicting him for abuses, prevented this as the incumbent consul,\u00a0Lucius Volcatius Tullus, disallowed the candidacy. He was finally brought to trial in 65 BC, where he received the support of many distinguished men, including many consulars.<\/sup>\u00a0Even one of the\u00a0consuls\u00a0for 65 BC,\u00a0Lucius Manlius Torquatus, demonstrated his support for Catiline.\u00a0 <\/sup>Cicero also contemplated defending Catiline in court.<\/sup>\u00a0Eventually, Catiline was acquitted. The author of the\u00a0Commentariolum Petitionis<\/i>, possibly\u00a0Cicero’s brother,\u00a0Quintus Cicero, suggests that Catiline was only acquitted by the fact that “he left the court as poor as some of his judges had been before the trial,”<\/sup>\u00a0implying that he bribed his judges.<\/p>\n

There are at least two conspiracies from his life, which led to his glorious death, well until Hector stepped into the picture.<\/p>\n

For More Information contact the Vampire Council Library<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vampire Council: Member   Catiline was born in 108 BC to one of the oldest patrician families in Rome,\u00a0gens Sergia. His parents were Lucius Sergius Silus and Belliena.\u00a0Although his family was of consular heritage, they were then declining in both social and financial fortunes.\u00a0Virgil\u00a0later gave the family an ancestor,\u00a0Sergestus, who …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[454,466],"tags":[447,239],"class_list":["post-15510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-introduction","category-vampire-council","tag-inspiration-block","tag-the-vampire-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-42a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15753,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-tongilius\/","url_meta":{"origin":15510,"position":0},"title":"Sylum Inspiration: Tongilius","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"February 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Council: Member \u00a0 Tongilius came from a wealthy connected family.\u00a0 \u00a0He was groomed for politics, and in time he found himself following the words and actions of Lucius Sergius Catilina. 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