How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic

By Sallust, Josiah Osgood

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

How to Stop a Conspiracy (Princeton, 2022) presents Josiah Osgood's translation of Sallust's The War against Catiline, with the Latin text on facing pages. Sallust tells how the aristocrat Catiline plotted to seize power in Rome in 63 BC and how the consul Cicero exposed the plot. At its center are the Senate speeches Sallust gives to Julius Caesar, who urged imprisoning the captured conspirators, and Cato the Younger, who demanded their execution, and his reflections on how ambition and greed corrupt a republic.

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