一部古罗马杰作的精力充沛的新译本，讲述了一位腐败而有魅力的政客领导的政变失败
公元前63年，贵族卡蒂琳因未能当选罗马共和国领袖而感到沮丧，试图推翻其民选政府。在腐败精英和贫穷、疏远的罗马人的支持下，他逃离了罗马，而他的同伙则密谋烧毁这座城市并谋杀其主要政客。这场未遂政变以参议院揭发阴谋者、导致他们被处决的激烈辩论，以及卡蒂琳和他的军团在战斗中的失败而告终。在《如何阻止阴谋》一书中，约西亚·奥斯古德（Josiah Osgood）对这些事件的权威性描述，即萨卢斯特（Sallust）的《与Cataline的战争》（TheWar with Cataline）进行了轻快、现代的新翻译。这是一本简短而有力的书，影响了包括美国开国元勋在内的几代读者对政变和政治阴谋的思考。
在一段紧张、扣人心弦的叙述中，萨卢斯特愉快地将卡蒂琳和他那些放荡的伙伴的有趣细节与高度可引用的道德判断以及对他们所利用的广泛的社会苦难的痛苦描述结合起来。一路上，我们看到了刻骨铭心、闹鬼的卡蒂琳的肖像，他同情罗马人的困境，却又愿意摧毁罗马；他的死敌西塞罗阻止了这一阴谋；还有朱利叶斯·凯撒，他为共谋者辩护，并被指控为共谋者之一。
本书介绍了与卡蒂琳的战争如何影响并继续影响我们对共和国生存和消亡的理解，并在封面上展示了原始拉丁文，使萨卢斯特扣人心弦的历史比以往任何时候都更容易理解。
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic
An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the city and murder its leading politicians. The attempted coup culminated with the unmasking of the conspirators in the Senate, a stormy debate that led to their execution, and the defeat of Catiline and his legions in battle. In How to Stop a Conspiracy, Josiah Osgood presents a brisk, modern new translation of the definitive account of these events, Sallust’s TheWar with Catiline―a brief, powerful book that has influenced how generations of readers, including America’s founders, have thought about coups and political conspiracies.
In a taut, jaw-dropping narrative, Sallust pleasurably combines juicy details about Catiline and his louche associates with highly quotable moral judgments and a wrenching description of the widespread social misery they exploited. Along the way, we get unforgettable portraits of the bitter and haunted Catiline, who was sympathetic to the plight of Romans yet willing to destroy Rome; his archenemy Cicero, who thwarts the conspiracy; and Julius Caesar, who defends the conspirators and is accused of being one of them.
Complete with an introduction that discusses how The War with Catiline has shaped and continues to shape our understanding of how republics live and die, and featuring the original Latin on facing pages, this volume makes Sallust’s gripping history more accessible than ever before.
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