How to Stop a Conspiracy
by Sallust, translated by Josiah Osgood
Sallust's account of Catiline's plot against Rome: ambition, debt, demagoguery, Cicero's response. Brief Princeton edition with eerie resonance.
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Three things you will actually use
- Debt and ambition breed plots.
- Institutions must respond.
- Corruption begins in prosperity.
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Read the speeches of Caesar and Cato.
Our verdict
Sallust on Catiline.
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