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41The Allobroges for a long time were in doubt what course to pursue. 2On the one hand was their debt, their love of war, and the hope of great booty in the event of victory; but on the other were the senate’s greater resources, a course free from danger, and sure rewards in place of uncertain hopes. 3All these considerations they weighed, but in the end the fortune of the republic turned the scale. 4They accordingly divulged the whole affair, just as it had come to their ears, to Quintus Fabius Sanga, their nation’s principal patron. 5Cicero, on being informed of the plan through Sanga, instructed the envoys to feign a strong interest in the conspiracy, approach the other members of it,make liberal promises, and use every effort to show the guilt of the conspirators as clearly as possible.
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