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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
I hope you can give a better synopsis than what I found online (all the same, in 4 places)
" His political career had taken a near-devastating blow when three years before he had found himself before a jury of Roman knights (?) for allegedly having sexual relations with a Vestal Virgin"
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"Knights" is a perfectly fine and accepted synonym for "equites" as in members of the Equestrian order.
As for the synopsis: Well, the book is about, rather notorious, Lucius Sergius Catilina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catiline. Catiline is also the protagonist in Lustrum by Robert Harris.