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| 34 To this address
Quintus Marcius replied, that, “if they wished to make any petition to the
senate, they must lay down their arms, and proceed as suppliants to Rome;”
adding, that “such had always been the kindness and humanity of the Roman
senate and people, that none had ever asked help of them in vain.” Catiline, on his march, sent letters to most men of consular dignity, and to all the most respectable citizens, stating, that “as he was beset by false accusations, and unable to resist the combination of his enemies, he was submitting to the will of fortune, and going into exile at Marseilles; not that he was guilty of the great wickedness laid to his charge, but that the state might be undisturbed, and that no insurrection might arise from his defense of himself.” Quintus Catulus, however, read in the senate a letter of a very different character, which, he said, was delivered to him in the name of Catiline, and of which the following is a copy: |
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