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| 26 Catiline, having
made these arrangements, still canvassed for the consulship for the following
year; hoping that, if he should be elected, he would easily manage Antonius
according to his pleasure. Nor did he, in the mean time, remain inactive, but
devised schemes, in every possible way, against Cicero, who, however, did not
want skill or policy to guard against them. For, at the very beginning of his
consulship, he had, by making many promises through Fulvia, prevailed on
Quintus Curius, whom I have already mentioned, to give him secret information
of Catiline’s proceedings. He had also persuaded his colleague, Antonius, by an
arrangement respecting their provinces, to entertain no sentiments of
disaffection towards the state; and he kept around him, though without
ostentation, a guard of his friends and dependents. When the day of the comitia came, and neither Catiline’s efforts for the consulship, nor the plots which he had laid for the consuls in the Campus Martius, were attended with success, he determined to proceed to war, and to resort to the utmost extremities, since what he had attempted secretly had ended in confusion and disgrace. |
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