In the history of the Roman Republic, the first Catilinarian conspiracy was a plot to murder the consuls of 65 BC, Lucius Manlius Torquatus and Lucius Aurelius Cotta. Supposedly, Catiline intended to seize power following an electoral dispute, in which the original set of candidates elected to the office were deemed ineligible. Historians consider it unlikely that Catiline would have been involved in the first Catilinarian conspiracy or, indeed, that the conspiracy existed at all. Two years later, Catiline would lead the Second Catilinarian conspiracy, better known as the Catiline Conspiracy, to overthrow Cicero and his co-consul Gaius Antonius Hybrida.