One of the late Republic’s great villains was Catiline, who you’ll remember was judicially murdered by Cicero. Even before he conceived of a popular overthrow of the Senate, he was causing trouble. He was prosecuted, and acquitted, for fucking a Vestal Virgin, which was a very bad thing to do, for a start. And then he suffered an unfortunate series of events: his wife died, then his teenage son died, and then he married a beautiful but unpopular woman named Aurelia Orestilla.
