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proceedings at Rome, Catiline, out of the entire force which he himself had
brought with him, and that which Manlius had previously collected, formed two
legions, filling up the cohorts as far as his numbers would allow; and
afterwards, as any volunteers, or recruits from his confederates, arrived in
his camp, he distributed them equally throughout the cohorts, and thus filled
up his legions, in a short time, with their regular number of men, though at
first he had not had more than two thousand. But, of his whole army, only about
a fourth part had the proper weapons of soldiers; the rest, as chance had
equipped them, carried darts, spears, or sharpened stakes. As Antonius approached with his army, Catiline directed his march over the hills, encamping, at one time, in the direction of Rome, at another in that of Gaul. He gave the enemy no opportunity of fighting, yet hoped himself shortly to find one, if his accomplices at Rome should succeed in their objects. Slaves, meanwhile, of whom vast numbers had at first flocked to him, he continued to reject, not only as depending on the strength of the conspiracy, but as thinking impolitic to appear to share the cause of citizens with runagates. |
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