Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1914. / With reproduction of original t.p. Bibliography: p. [231]-236.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1914. / With reproduction of original t.p. Bibliography: p. [231]-236.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1914. / With reproduction of original t.-p. Bibliography: p. [231]-236. Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.

Dissertatio inauguralis--Göttingen, 1893.

My thesis will reconsider the failed attempt by a number of Roman citizens to gain power in Rome in 63 B.C., commonly labeled “The Conspiracy of Catiline.” Two Roman authors, M. Tullius Cicero and C. Sallustius Crispus, were eyewitnesses to the events occurring that year and both wrote lengthy accounts about the discovery and suppression of the affair and its participants, who were planning to gain power in Rome through violent means. The participants planned murder and arson inside of Rome and threatened the city with an army in northern Etruria. Our sources tend to ascribe the leadership of these hostile activities to L. Sergius Catilina, presented as a debauched, and indebted, scion of a noble family. However, our sources discuss many other Roman citizens who participated with the affair. My thesis provides a comprehensive study of the terminology Cicero and Sallust used and the lexical choices they made to describe the affair and its participants. I examine the terminology that both these authors used to identify the affair’s context, primarily focusing on the terms coniuratio (“conspiracy”) and bellum (“war”), with the aim of showing how these terms and concepts become crystallized in this period. In addition, I examine the portrayal of the reported disturbances occurring inside and outside of Rome and the representation of the Roman citizens who were involved in them. By scrutinizing the terminology found in Cicero and Sallust’s accounts of the affair of 63, my thesis demonstrates that its common appellation as “The Conspiracy of Catiline” and all that it means – in terms of a single event with one leader – needs to be reconsidered due to the interpretations of its multifarious aspects.

Inaug.-dis.--Halle. / Vita.

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As Catilinárias são compostas por quatro discursos, sendo o primeiro e quarto proferidos no Senado, e o segundo e terceiro, na assembleia popular, entre os dias oito de novembro e cinco de dezembro de 63 a.C., ano do consulado de Cícero. Nosso trabalho se divide em duas partes: a primeira apresenta a tradução completa da obra e a segunda consiste em uma análise retórica, examinando os discursos individualmente por temáticas. No primeiro, tratamos da invectiva no Senado; no segundo, da invectiva a Catilina; no terceiro, da autopromoção ciceroniana e, no quarto, da prudentia no tribunal estabelecido pelo cônsul no Senado. / The Catilinarians are composed of four speeches; the first and fourth were delivered to the Senate, and the second and third were delivered to the popular assembly, between November 8 and December 5 of 63 BC, the year of Cicero\'s consulate. This dissertation is divided into two parts: the first part presents the complete translation into portuguese and the second part consists of a rhetorical analysis, examining the speeches individually by theme. In the first speech, we consider the use of invective in general within the Senate; in the second speech, we concentrate on invective towards Catiline; in the third speech, we observe the Ciceronian self-promotion and, in the fourth speech, we consider the use of prudentia in the \"senate court\" established by the consul.