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| | Table of Contents and Excerpt, Pagán, Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History |
 | | The allusion to the evil conspirators Lucius Sergius Catilina and the members of the house of the CorneliiPublius Cornelius Cethegus, Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Publius and Servius Cornelius Sullawould not have been lost on Livy's audience. |
 | | The achievements of Cicero, and especially his suppression of the conspiracy, were eulogized in an epic poem by Cornelius Severus, and Lucan invokes the eloquence of Cicero, "beneath whose authority fierce Catiline trembled" (2.541). |
 | | Quintilian notes that Lentulus was the third Cornelius to rule Rome, a detail found in both the |
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