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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 775 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CETHEGUS , the name of a See also:

Roman patrician See also:family of the Cornelian gens. Like the younger See also:Cato its members kept up the old Roman See also:fashion of dispensing with the See also:tunic and leaving the arms See also:bare (See also:Horace, Ars Poetica, 5o; See also:Lucan, Pharsalia, ii. 543)• Two individuals are of some importance: (I) See also:MARCUS See also:CORNELIUS CETHEGUS, See also:pontifex See also:maximus and See also:curule See also:aedile, 213 B.C. In 211, as See also:praetor, he had See also:charge of See also:Apulia; later, he was sent to See also:Sicily, where he proved a successful See also:administrator. In 209 he was See also:censor, and in 204 See also:consul. In 203 he was proconsul in Upper See also:Italy, where, in See also:conjunction with the praetor P. Quintilius Varus, he gained a hard-won victory over See also:Mago, See also:Hannibal's See also:brother, in Insubrian territory, and obliged him to leave Italy. He died in 196. He had a See also:great reputation as an orator, and is charaaterized by See also:Ennius as " the See also:quintessence of persuasiveness " (suadae medulla). Horace (Ars Poet. 5o; Epistles, ii. 2.

117) calls him an authority on the use of Latin words. See also:

Livy See also:XXV. 2, 41, See also:XXVii. II, See also:XXiX. II, See also:XXX. 18. (2) See also:GAIUS CORNELIUS CETHEGUS, the boldest and most dangerous of See also:Catiline's associates. Like many other youthful profligates, he joined the See also:conspiracy in the See also:hope of getting his debts cancelled. When Catiline See also:left See also:Rome in 63 B.C., after See also:Cicero's first speech, Cethegus remained behind as See also:leader of the conspirators with P. See also:Lentulus Sura. He himself undertook to See also:murder Cicero and other prominent men, but was hampered by the dilatoriness of Sura, whose See also:age and See also:rank entitled him to the See also:chief See also:consideration. The See also:discovery of arms in Cethegus's See also:house, and of the See also:letter which he had given to the ambassadors of the AIlobroges, who had been invited to co-operate, led to his See also:arrest.

He was condemned to See also:

death, and executed, with Sura and others, on the See also:night of the 5th of See also:December. See also:Sallust, Catilina, 46-55; Cicero, In See also:Cat. iii. 5-7; See also:Appian, See also:Bell. CZV. ii. 2-5; see CATILINE.

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