Marcellus, and in the days of the Philippics was
sent as one of a deputation to Antony. He died while on
the journey. He is said to have been a man of excellent
character, and a thorough-going conservative.

[162] Pro Murena, xi.

[163] Ibid., xi.

[164] Ibid., xii.

[165] Ibid., xiii.

[166] Ibid., xi.

[167] Pro Cluentio, 1.

[168] De Lege Agraria, ii., 5.

[169] He alludes here to his own colleague Antony, whom
through his whole year of office he had to watch lest
the second Consul should join the enemies whom he
fears--should support Rullus or go over to Catiline.
With this view, choosing the lesser of the two evils, he
bribes Antony with the government of Macedonia.

[170] De Lege Agraria, i., 7 and 8.

[171] The "jus imaginis" belonged to those whose
ancestors was counted an AEdile, a Praetor, or a Consul.
The descendants of such officers were entitled to have
these images, whether in bronze, or marble, or wax,
carried at the funerals of their friends.

[172] Forty years since, Marius who was also "novus
homo," and also, singularly enough, from Arpinum, had
been made Consul, but not with the glorious
circumstances as now detailed by Cicero.

[173] De Lege Agraria, ii., 1, 2, and 3.

[174] See Introduction.

[175] Pliny the elder, Hist. Nat., lib. vii., ca. xxxi.

[176] The word is "proscripsisti," "you proscribed him."
For the proper understanding of this, the bearing of
Cicero toward Antony during the whole period of the
Philippics must be considered.

[177] Catiline, by Mr. Beesly. Fortnightly Review, 1865.

[178] Pro Murena, xxv.: "Quem omnino vivum illinc exire
non oportuerat." I think we must conclude from this that
Cicero had almost expected that his attack upon the
conspirators, in his first Catiline oration, would have
the effect of causing him to be killed.

[179] AEneid, viii., 668:

"Te, Catilina, minaci
Pendentem scopulo."

[180] Velleius Paterculus, lib. ii., xxxiv.

[181] Juvenal, Sat. ii., 27: "Catilina Cethegum!" Could
such a one as Catiline answer such a one as Cethegus?
Sat. viii., 232: "Arma tamen vos Nocturna et flammas
domibus templisque parastis." Catiline, in spite of his
noble blood, had endeavored to burn the city. Sat. xiv.,
41: "Catilinam