"Catilinarian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accord to it the first rank among works of the kind belonging to the sixteenth century. They contrast its sprightliness, its terse, telling phrases with the heavy, dragging constructions that disfigure the prose of contemporary works. Without copying in a servile fashion the Catilinarian speeches of Cicero, the "Tigre" breathes their spirit and lacks none of their force. Take, for example, the introductory sentences: "Tigre enrage! Vipere venimeuse! Sepulcre d'abomination! Spectacle de malheur! Jusques a quand sera-ce que tu abuseras de la jeunesse de nostre Roy? ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... was justified in putting the Catilinarian conspirators to death. The conviction of Lentulus. H.C. Nutting. Classical Journal. Vol. iii, p. 186. Catiline as a Party Leader. E.S. Beesly. Fortnightly ...
— A Handbook for Latin Clubs • Various
... the utter recklessness of the Catilinarian party, and the cheap estimate at which they held human life, than the perfect unconcern with which they set upon a party of men, whose identity with those whom they feared ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert |
