Former Latin students who hav ...

The Washington Post | February 8, 2004| | Copyright

Former Latin students who have held a grudge ever since being made to construe Cicero's Catilinian orations may have overlooked what a great story they contain. In Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Doubleday, $27.50), Tom Holland makes that story into a set- piece, with an egotistical republican, Cicero, pitted against a "louche" spendthrift, Catiline. They ran against each other for a consulship, which Catiline viewed as a ticket out of debt; but Cicero won. At the time, the Roman poor were already talking up revolution, and Catiline decided to be their champion. Cicero set out ...

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