Parallel Text Latin - English In this masterpiece of literature Sallust relates the story of Catiline, a Roman noble who has decided to use conspiracy and war to achieve his aims. A blatant and selfish grab for power that heralded the coming end of the republic, the Bellum Catilinae shows the dissensions and fractures in Roman society and how easy these could be exploited to install a dictatorship. Cicero managed to save the republic with the aid of a few spirited men, yet without any serious reforms in the aftermath of the conspiracy history was bound to repeat itself with a very different ending. A young Julius Caesar was witness to the events that had a lasting effect on him. With numerous notes and annotations. A pukka classic from www.arepo.biz