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there, then, any one who says that Sulla at that time had any idea of coming into the Campus?
And yet, if at that time he had united himself with Catiline in that society of wickedness,
why did he leave him? why was not he with Autronius? why, when their cases were similar, are
not similar proofs of criminality found? But since Cornelius himself even now hesitates about
giving information against him, he, as you say, contents himself with filling up the outline
of his son's information what then does he say about that night, when, according to the orders
of Catiline, he came into the Scythemakers' 1 street, to the house of Marcus Lecca, that night which followed the sixth of
November; in my consulship? that night which of all the moments of the conspiracy was the most
terrible and the most miserable. Then the day in which Catiline should leave the city, then
the terms on which the rest should remain behind, then the arrangement and division of the
whole city, with regard to the conflagration and the massacre, was settled. Then your father,
O Cornelius, as he afterwards confessed, begged for himself that especial employment of going
the first in the morning to salute me as consul, in order that, laving been admitted,
according to my usual custom and to the privilege which his friendship with me gave him, he
might slay me in my bed.
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