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O Tempora! O Mores!: Cicero's Catilinarian Orations, A Student Edition with Historical Essays by Susan Olfson Shapiro (Editor), Marcus Tullius Cicero Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-8061-3662-6 / 0806136626 ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3662-2 / 9780806136622 In 63 b.c., Lucius Sergius Catilina, a Roman aristocrat, formed a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. Cicero, who was consul that year, exposed the plot and documented his defeat of the conspiracy in his "Orations against Catiline." The "First Catilinarian Oration" is well known and deserved |