catilinarians

Updated: June 23, 2025

Further, there still roamed in the border-region between the kingdoms of Juba and Bocchus the last of the Catilinarians, that Publius Sittius of Nuceria, who eighteen years before had become converted from a bankrupt Italian merchant into a Mauretanian leader of free bands, and since that time had procured for himself a name and a body of retainers amidst the Libyan quarrels.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Let us hear his own description of it, in a letter to his friends in Basel and Strassburg: "For some time back, a great deal of movement, a bustling and joyful assembling has been observed in the troop of our Catilinarians, as soon as the cause of the Gospel met with any difficulty in the way.

Johann Jakob Hottinger - The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli

Further, there still roamed in the border-region between the kingdoms of Juba and Bocchus the last of the Catilinarians, that Publius Sittius of Nuceria, who eighteen years before had become converted from a bankrupt Italian merchant into a Mauretanian leader of free bands, and since that time had procured for himself a name and a body of retainers amidst the Libyan quarrels.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy