Catilina plans to kill Cicero (consular elections 62 BC)

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Lucius Sergius Catilina Origin: Roman Gender: Male, Activity: upper class, Reaction: attack
Victim (Person) :	Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero Origin: Roman Gender: Male, Activity: upper class
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Cicero VII, 14, 2.Plutarch Plutarch's Lives: Cicero VII, 14, 2. Paste CTS-Link
Century :	1 B.C.
Year :	62 B.C.
Context :	conspiracy
Motivation :	political tactical/strategical
Original Text :	ὑπατείαν γὰρ αὖθις μετῄει [Catalina], βεβουλευμένος ἀνελεῖν τὸν Κικέρωνα περὶ αὐτόν τῶν ἀρχαιρεσιῶν τὸν θόρυβον.
Translation :	For Catiline was again a candidate for the consulship, and had determined to kill Cicero in the very tumult of the elections.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar, ed. E. H. Warmington, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 99), Cambridge - London 1967 (first ed. 1919).
Notes :	This is the third time Catilina takes part in the consular elections (62 BC) - he failed twice before (65 BC and 64 BC - Catilinarian Conspiracy). Cicero was elected in 64 BC. And in 62 BC Silanus and Murena were elected as consuls.
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