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| 39 After Pompey,
however, was sent to the maritime and Mithridatic wars, the power of the people
was diminished and the influence of the few increased. These few kept all
public offices, the administration of the provinces, and everything else, in
their own hands; they themselves lived free from harm, in flourishing
circumstances, and without apprehension; overawing others, at the same time,
with threats of impeachment, so that, when in office, they might be less
inclined to inflame the people. But as soon as a prospect of change, in this
dubious state of affairs, had presented itself, the old spirit of contention
awakened their passions; and had Catiline, in his first battle, come off
victorious, or left the struggle undecided, great distress and calamity must
certainly have fallen upon the state, nor would those, who might at last have
gained the ascendancy, have been allowed to enjoy it long, for some superior
power would have wrested dominion and liberty from them when weary and
exhausted. There were some, however, unconnected with the conspiracy, who set out to join Catiline at an early period of his proceedings. Among these was Aulus Fulvius, the son of a senator, whom, being arrested on his journey, his father ordered to be put to death. In Rome, at the same time Lentulus, in pursuance of Catiline’s directions, was endeavoring to gain over, by his own agency or that of others, all whom he thought adapted, either by principles or circumstances, to promote an insurrection; and not citizens only but every description of men who could be of any service in war. |
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