person

catiline

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committed villainies
description
A historical figure referenced as an example of someone who committed villainies not for the sake of evil itself, but to achieve worldly honours, empire, riches, and freedom from fear and domestic embarrassments.
motives
  • honours
  • empire
  • riches
  • freedom from fear of the laws
  • freedom from domestic needs

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  • committedVices
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    Catiline is presented as an example of a man who committed evil deeds, referred to as 'villainies', but with underlying motives beyond the evil itself.
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    So then, not even Catiline himself loved his own villainies, but something else, for whose sake he did them.
  • soughtLower Goods
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    Catiline's villainies were motivated by a desire to attain worldly gains such as honours, empire, and riches, and to be freed from fear and domestic needs.
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    that, through that practice of guilt, he might, having taken the city, attain to honours, empire, riches, and be freed from fear of the laws, and his embarrassments from domestic needs, and consciousness of villainies.
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