§30Post paucos dies L. Saenius senator in senatu litteras recitavit, quas Faesulis adlatas sibi dicebat, in quibus scriptum erat C. Manlium arma cepisse cum magna multitudine ante diem VI Kalendas Novembris.
A few days later, the senator Lucius Saenius read aloud in the Senate a letter which he said had been brought to him from Faesulae, in which it was written that Gaius Manlius had taken up arms with a large multitude before the sixth day before the Kalends of November.
simul, id quod in tali re solet, alii portenta atque prodigia nuntiabant, alii conventus fieri, arma portari, Capuae atque in Apulia servile bellum moveri.
At the same time, as is usual in such circumstances, some reported portents and prodigies, others that assemblies were being held, arms being carried, and a slave war was being stirred up at Capua and in Apulia.
igitur senati decreto Q. Marcius Rex Faesulas, Q. Metellus Creticus in Apuliam circumque ea loca missi — hi utrique ad urbem imperatores erant, impediti ne triumpharent calumnia paucorum, quibus omnia honesta atque inhonesta vendere mos erat —, sed praetores Q. Pompeius Rufus Capuam, Q. Metellus Celer in agrum Picenum, iisque permissum, uti pro tempore atque periculo exercitum conpararent.
Therefore, by a decree of the Senate, Quintus Marcius Rex was sent to Faesulae, and Quintus Metellus Creticus to Apulia and those surrounding places — both of these were commanders near the city, prevented from celebrating a triumph by the chicanery of a few, who were accustomed to sell everything honorable and dishonorable —, but the praetors, Quintus Pompeius Rufus to Capua, and Quintus Metellus Celer to the Picene district, and they were permitted to raise an army according to the time and danger.
ad hoc, si quis indicavisset de coniuratione, quae contra rem publicam facta erat, praemium servo libertatem et sestertia centum, libero inpunitatem eius rei et sestertia ducenta, itemque decrevere, uti gladiatoriae familiae Capuam et in cetera municipia distribuerentur pro quoiusque opibus, Romae per totam urbem vigiliae haberentur iisque minores magistratus praeessent.
In addition to this, if anyone should give information concerning the conspiracy which had been made against the republic, they decreed as a reward for a slave, freedom and a hundred thousand sesterces, and for a free man, impunity for that matter and two hundred thousand sesterces, and likewise they decreed that gladiatorial families should be distributed to Capua and to the other municipia according to the resources of each, and that at Rome, throughout the whole city, watches should be held and that minor magistrates should be in charge of them.
§31Quis rebus permota civitas atque inmutata urbis facies erat.
By these things the state was deeply moved and the face of the city was changed.
ex summa laetitia atque lascivia, quae diuturna quies pepererat, repente omnis tristitia invasit: festinare, trepidare, neque loco neque homini quoiquam satis credere, neque bellum gerere neque pacem habere, suo quisque metu pericula metiri.
From the greatest joy and wantonness, which a long peace had produced, suddenly sadness invaded everyone: they hurried, they trembled, they did not sufficiently trust any place or any person, they neither waged war nor kept peace, and each measured dangers by his own fear.
ad hoc mulieres, quibus rei publicae magnitudine belli timor insolitus incesserat, adflictare sese, manus supplices ad caelum tendere, miserari parvos liberos, rogitare omnia, omni rumore pavere, adripere omnia superbia atque deliciis omissis, sibi patriaeque diffidere.
In addition to this, the women, in whom a fear of war, unfamiliar due to the magnitude of the republic, had entered, lamented themselves, stretched suppliant hands to heaven, pitied their small children, asked about everything, dreaded every rumor, and abandoning pride and luxury, seized upon everything, distrusting themselves and their country.
At Catilinae crudelis animus eadem illa movebat, tametsi praesidia parabantur et ipse lege Plautia interrogatus erat ab L. Paulo.
But the cruel mind of Catiline was still pursuing those same plans, although defenses were being prepared and he himself had been indicted under the Lex Plautia by Lucius Paulus.
postremo dissimulandi causa aut sui expurgandi, sicut iurgio lacessitus foret, in senatum venit.
Finally, for the purpose of dissembling or of clearing himself, as if he had been provoked by a dispute, he came into the Senate.
tum M. Tullius consul, sive praesentiam eius timens sive ira conmotus, orationem habuit luculentam atque utilem rei publicae, quam postea scriptam edidit.
Then the consul Marcus Tullius, either fearing his presence or moved by anger, delivered an eloquent speech useful to the republic, which he afterwards published in writing.
sed ubi ille adsedit, Catilina, ut erat paratus ad dissimulanda omnia, demisso voltu, voce supplici postulare a patribus coepit, ne quid de se temere crederent: ea familia ortum, ita se ab adulescentia vitam instituisse, ut omnia bona in spe haberet; ne existumarent sibi, patricio homini, quoius ipsius atque maiorum pluruma beneficia in plebem Romanam essent, perdita re publica opus esse, quom eam servaret M. Tullius, inquilinus civis urbis Romae.
But when he sat down, Catiline, as he was prepared to dissemble everything, with downcast look and suppliant voice began to entreat the fathers not to believe anything about him rashly; saying that he was sprung from such a family and had so regulated his life from youth that he had all good things in prospect; they should not think that he, a patrician man, whose own and whose ancestors' very many services to the Roman plebs existed, had need of the ruin of the republic, while Marcus Tullius, a lodger citizen of the city of Rome, was saving it.
ad hoc male dicta alia quom adderet, obstrepere omnes, hostem atque parricidam vocare.
When he added other insults to this, everyone clamored against him, calling him an enemy and a parricide.
tum ille furibundus 'quoniam quidem circumventus' inquit 'ab inimicis praeceps agor, §32incendium meum ruina restinguam. ' deinde se ex curia domum proripuit.
Then he, furious, said: "Since indeed, surrounded by enemies, I am driven headlong, I will extinguish my fire by ruin." Then he rushed from the senate-house to his home.
ibi multa ipse secum volvens, quod neque insidiae consuli procedebant et ab incendio intellegebat urbem vigiliis munitam, optumum factu credens exercitum augere ac, prius quam legiones scriberentur, multa antecapere, quae bello usui forent, nocte intempesta cum paucis in Manliana castra profectus est.
There, revolving many things in his mind, because the plots against the consul were not succeeding and he understood that the city was fortified by watches against fire, believing it best to increase his army and, before the legions were enrolled, to forestall many things which would be of use for war, he set out in the dead of night with a few to the Manlian camp.
sed Cethego atque Lentulo ceterisque, quorum cognoverat promptam audaciam, mandat, quibus rebus possent, opes factionis confirment, insidias consuli maturent, caedem incendia aliaque belli facinora parent: sese propediem cum magno exercitu ad urbem accessurum.
But he charged Cethegus and Lentulus, and the others whose prompt audacity he had known, to strengthen the power of the faction by whatever means they could, to hasten the plots against the consul, and to prepare slaughter, fires, and other deeds of war; saying that he would soon approach the city with a large army.
Dum haec Romae geruntur, C. Manlius ex suo numero legatos ad Marcium Regem mittit cum mandatis huiusce modi:
While these things were being done at Rome, Gaius Manlius sent envoys from his number to Marcius Rex with instructions of this kind: