to express.

[196] Pro Murena, xxv.

[197] "Darent operam consules ne quid detrimenti
respublica capiat."

[198] Catilinaria, xxxi.

[199] Quintilian, lib. xii., 10: "Quem tamen et suorum
homines temporum incessere audebant, ut tumidiorem, et
asianum, et redundantem."

[200] Orator., xxxvii.: "A nobis homo audacissimus
Catilina in senatu accusatus obmutuit."

[201] 2 Catilinaria, xxxi.

[202] In the first of them to the Senate, chap. ix., he
declares this to Catiline himself: "Si mea voce
perterritus ire in exsilium animum induxeris, quanta
tempestas invidiae nobis, si minus in praesens tempus,
recenti memoria scelerum tuorum, at in posteritatem
impendeat." He goes on to declare that he will endure
all that, if by so doing he can save the Republic. "Sed
est mihi tanti; dummodo ista privata sit calamitas, et a
reipublicae periculis sejungatur."

[203] Sallust, Catilinaria, xli.: "Itaque Q. Fabio
Sangae cujus patrocinio civitas plurimum utebatur rem
omnem uti cognoverant aperiunt."

[204] Horace, Epo. xvi., 6: "Novisque rebus infidelis
Allobrox." The unhappy Savoyard has from this line been
known through ages as a conspirator, false even to his
fellow-conspirators.

Juvenal, vii., 214: "Rufum qui toties Ciceronem
Allobroga dixit." Some Rufus, acting as advocate, had
thought to put down Cicero by calling him an
Allobrogian.

[205] The words in which this honor was conferred he
himself repeats: "Quod urbem incendiis, caede cives,
Italiam bello liberassem"--"because I had rescued the
city from fire, the citizens from slaughter, and Italy
from war."

[206] It is necessary in all oratory to read something
between the lines. It is allowed to the speaker to
produce effect by diminishing and exaggerating. I think
we should detract something from the praises bestowed on
Catiline's military virtues. The bigger Catiline could
be made to appear, the greater would be the honor of
having driven him out of the city.

[207] In Catilinam, iii., xi.

[208] In Catilinam, ibid., xii.: "Ne mihi noceant
vestrum est providere."

[209] "Prince of the Senate" was an honorary title,
conferred on some man of mark as a dignity--at this
period on some ex-Consul; it conferred no power. Cicero,
the Consul who had convened the Senate,