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There is a fifth class, of parricides, assassins, in short of all infamous characters, whom
I do not wish to recall from Catiline, and indeed they cannot be separated from him. Let them
perish in their wicked war, since they are so numerous that a prison cannot contain them.
There is a last class, last not only in number but in the sort of men and in their way of
life; the especial body-guard of Catiline, of his levying; yes, the friends of his embraces
and of his bosom; whom you see with carefully combed hair, glossy, beardless, or with
well-trimmed beards; with tunics with sleeves, or reaching to the ankles; clothed with veils,
not with robes; all the industry of whose life, all the labour of whose watchfulness, is
expended in suppers lasting till daybreak.
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