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The
Allobroges, those who gave us the truest information on the most important matters, accused
Autronius, and so did the letters of many men, and many private witnesses. All that time no
one ever accused Sulla; no one ever mentioned his name. Lastly, after Catiline had been driven
out or allowed to depart out of the city, Autronius sent him arms, trumpets, bugles, scythes,
1 standards, legions. He who was left in the city, but expected out of it though
checked by the punishment of Lentulus, gave way at times to feelings of fear, but never to any
right feelings or good sense. Sulla, on the other hand, was so quiet, that all that time he
was at Naples, where it is not supposed that there were any men who were implicated in or
suspected of this crime; and the place itself is one not so well calculated to excite the
feelings of men in distress, as to console them.
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