t their seats were thereupon
transferred into the body of the Senate; and I presume that such was
not the case; as they were not real senators, but had only the right
of speaking without voting, as was the case with all who sat by the
virtue of their offices, without regular election.

20 The age of senatorial eligibility is nowhere distinctly named. But
the quaestorship, the lowest office which gave admission to the
Curia, required the age of thirty-one in its occupant.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

The author's footnotes have been moved to the end of the volume.

The author uses both "Cataline" and "Catiline". Both spellings were
retained, as were other peculiarities in spelling and punctuation.

The following typographical errors were corrected:

page 17, quote added (_"But, in good sooth_)
page 26, "of" added (_side of the doorway_)
page 43, period added (_unpleasant night._)
page 56, quote removed (after _I pray thee, not?_)
page 57, quote added (_answered Cataline! "See!_)
page 69, period changed to comma (_Aristius, here_)
page 76, quote removed (after _how the very chased work fits!_), and
"and ho spoke" corrected to "and he spoke"
page 86, "pear" changed to "spear" (_better with the spear than
Marcius_)
page 96, comma added (_Should you, Arvina?_)
page 125, quote added (_"Never mind that!_)
page 130, double "they" removed (_shall never teach you that they
are so_)
page 154, "Paulus" changed to "Paullus" (_Paullus Caecilius Arvina
tempted us_)
page 159, quotes added (_"Lucius Catiline! I know all!"_)
page 175, quote removed (after _ye gods!_)
page 175, period added (_sad bitter irony._)
page 185, "A. C." changed to "B. C." (_62 B. C._)
page 185, "It" changed to "it" (_it is not certain_)
page 194, period added (_the rebuke of Cato._)
page 219, "silet" changed to "silent" (_stood for many minutes
silent_)
page 235, "hagard" changed to "haggard" (_in the haggard eyes_)
page 236, "A. C." changed to "B. C." (_soon after B. C. 130_)
page 243, "Porcus" changed to "Porcius" (_of Marcus Porcius Laeca_)

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