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| 32 He then hurried
from the senate to his own house; and then, after much reflection with himself,
thinking that, as his plots against the consul had been unsuccessful, and as he
knew the city to be secured from fire by the watch, his best course would be to
augment his army, and make provision for the war before the legions could be
raised, he set out in the dead of night, and with a few attendants, to the camp
of Manlius. But he left in charge Lentulus and Cethegus, and others of whose
prompt determination he was assured, to strengthen the interests of their party
in every possible way, to forward the plots against the consul, and to make
arrangements for a massacre, for firing the city, and for other destructive
operations of war; promising that he himself would shortly advance on the city
with a large army. During the course of these proceedings at Rome, Caius Manlius dispatched some of his followers as envoys to Quintus Marcius Rex, with directions to address him to the following effect: |
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