Life of Cicero, 1.22.5

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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5For it was not his preventing their schemes and punishing the schemers which seemed so wonderful, but his quenching the greatest of all revolutions with the fewest possible evils, without sedition and commotion. For most of those who had flocked to the standard of Catiline, as soon as they learned the fate of Lentulus and Cethegus, deserted him and went away; and Catiline, after a conflict with his remaining forces against Antonius, perished himself and his army with him.[40]

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Notes

  • [40] Near the beginning of 62 B.C.

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