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Loews catiline, a. Man of noble extraction, and who had already been praetor, had been a competitor of Cicero's for the consulship; the next year he again ofi'ered himself for the office, practicing such excessive and open bribery, that Cicero published a new law against it, with the additional penalty of ten years' exile; prohibiting likewise all shows of gladiators from being exhibited by a candidate within two, years of the time of his suing for any magistracy. Unless they were ordered by the will of a person deceased. Catiline. Who knew this law to be aimed chiefly at him, formed a design to murder Cicero and some oth ers of the chief men of the senate, on the day of election, which fixed for the twentieth of October. But Cicero had information of his plans, and laid them before the senate on which the election was de ferred. That they might have tirne to deliberate on an affair of so much importance. The day following, when the senate met he charged Cati line with having entertained this design, and Catiline's behavior had been so violent, that the senate passed the decree to which they had occasronally recourse in times of imminent danger from treason or se dition: Let the consuls take care that the republic suffers no harm. This decree invested the consuls with absolute power, and suspended all the ordinary forms of law, till the danger was over. On this Cicero doubled his guards, introduced some additional troops into the city, and when the elections came on, he wore a breast-plate under his robe for his protection; by which precaution he prevented Catiline from executing his design of murdering him and his competitors for the con sulship, of whom Decius Junius Silan'us and Lucius Licinius Murena were elected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
