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The spelling "Cataline" in the title of the book was retained, as were several other peculiarities in spelling and punctuation.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
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The people supporting Cataline were not the headcount proles and the rural population — they were middle to upper class people sliding into poverty and facing the prospect of having to sell themselves into slavery.
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism 2009
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"How long, Cataline, will you abuse our patience?"
Paul Abrams: Stop Covering Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Inflating Their Stature 2010
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Upon learning this from what we former intelligence officers used to call an "A-1 source" (completely reliable with excellent access to the information), the thought that came to me in the face of such chutzpah was from Cicero's livid oration against the Roman usurper Cataline: "Quousque, tandem, abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra!" — or "How long, at last, O Cataline, will you abuse our patience!"
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Arria was the wife of Paetus Caecina, one of the participants in the Cataline conspiracy to ruin Rome.
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PORTIA: Arria was the wife of Paetus Caecina, one of the participants in the Cataline conspiracy to ruin Rome.
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After being refused the consulship of Rome Cataline orchestrated a conspiracy to break up the senate, plunder the treasury, and set the city on fire.
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* [Borrowed from Cicero's: "How long, Cataline, will you abuse our patience?"].
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The range includes a Cataline Goat, Bighorn Sheep, Blesbock, Reedbuck, and others.
Boing Boing: November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Archives 2006
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DUKE: One of our mutual friends, Cataline Gambus (ph), came up to my room and woke me up and said you have to see this.
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