Catilinae Coniuratio
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Accordingly, about the beginning of June, in the consulship of Lucius Cæsar
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and Caius Figulus, he at first addressed each of his accomplices separately, encouraged some, and sounded others, and informed them of his own resources, of the unprepared condition of the state, and of the great prizes to be expected from the conspiracy. When he had ascertained, to his satisfaction, all that he required, he summoned all whose necessities were the most urgent, and whose spirits were the most daring, to a general conference.
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At that meeting there were present, of senatorial rank, Publius Lentulus
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Sura
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Publius Autronius,
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Lucius Cassius Longinus,
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Caius Cethegus,
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Publius and Servius Sylla
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the sons
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of Servius Sylla, Lucius Vargunteius
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Quintus Annius,
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Marcus Porcius Læca,
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Lucius Bestia,
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Quintus Curius;
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and, of the equestrian order, Marcus Fulvius Nobilior,
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Lucius Statilius,
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Publius Gabinius Capito,
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Caius Cornelius ;
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with many from the colonies and municipal towns,
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persons of consequence in their own localities. There were many others, too, among the nobility, concerned in the plot, but less openly; men whom the hope of power, rather than poverty or any other exigence, prompted to join in the affair. But most of the young men, and especially the sons of the nobility, favored the schemes of Catiline; they who had abundant means of living at ease, either splendidly or voluptuously, preferred uncertainties to certainties, war to peace. There were some, also, at that time, who believed that Marcus Licinius Crassus
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was not unacquainted with the conspiracy; because Cneius Pompey, whom he hated, was
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at the head of a large army, and he was willing that the power of any one whomsoever should raise itself against Pompey's influence; trusting, at the same time, that if the plot should succeed, he would easily place himself at the head of the conspirators.