SALLUSTII CATILINA

CHAPTER 13

Nam postquam tribunitia protestas restituta-est,

For after the tribunician power was restored,

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Cneio Pompeio et Marco Crasso consulibus,

Cneius Pompey and Marcus Crassus (being) consuls,

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adolescentes homines nacti summam potestatem,

young men having obtained the highest power,

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quibus aetas que animus erat ferox,

[the tribunician], to whom age and mind was fierce

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coepere exagitare plebem criminando

(ardent), began to harass [agitate] the commons by accusing

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senatum; dein incendere magis largiundo,

the senate then to inflame (them) more by bribing,

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atque pollicitando; ita ipsi

and by promising-often; [by bribes and promises]; thus they (began)

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fieri clari que potentes. Pleraque nobilitas

to be made conspicuous and powerful. Most the nobility

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nitebatur contra eos summa ope:

endeavoured against them with utmost might: [the greater part of the

nobility strove against them with all their might]

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sub specie senatus, pro sui magnitudine. Namque

under pretence of (for) the senate, (but) for their own greatness. For

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uti absolvam verum paucis, quicumque

that I my despatch true (the truth) in a few (words), whosever

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agitavere rempublicam per illa tempora.,

harassed the republic during those times, (under)

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honestis nominibus, alii sicuti defenderent

honourable names (pretences), some as-though they would defend

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jura populi; pars quo auctoritas senatus

the rights of the people; part in-order-that the authority of the senate

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foret maxuma, simulantes publicum bonum,

might be the greatest, pretending the public good, [but]

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certabant quisque pro sua. potentia: neque

did contend each for his-own power: Neither

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modestia, neque modus contentionis erat illis:

moderation, nor (limit) of dispute was to them:

[their contests with one another were carried on most violently]

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utrique: exercebant victoriam crudeliter. Sed postquam

both did exercise victory cruelly. But after

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Cneius Pompeius missus-est ad maritimum atque

Cneius Pompeius was-sent to the maritime and

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Mithridaticum bellum, opes plebis

Mithridatic war, the resources or the commons (were)

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imminutae, potentia paucorum crevit. Hi

impaired, the power of a few increased. These (began

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tenere magistratus, provincias, que omnia alia:

to posess magistracies, provinces, and all other (things):

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ipsi innoxii, florentes, agere aetatem sine

they free-from injury, flourishing, to-spend age without

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metu, que terrere caeteros judiciis,

fear, and to affright others, by judgments, [they free

from danger, alarmed others by judicial investigations],

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quo in magistratu tractarent plebem plaeidius,

in-order-that (when) in the magistracy they might manage the commons more-gently.

[And not excite commotion among them.]

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Sed ubi spes oblata-est dubiis rebus novandis, vetus

But when hope was offered for [adverse] things to-be-renewed (changed), the old

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certamen arrexit animos eorum. Quod

contest raised the minds of them. [Raised their courage]. But

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si Catilina discessisset superior

if Catiline might have departed (had departed) (come off) superior

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primo praelio, aut aequa manu, profecto magna

in the first battle, or with an equal force, indeed a great

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clades atque calamitas oppressisset rempublicam,

slaughter and calamity might have oppressed the republic,

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neque licuisset illis qui

neither might It have been-lawfull [permitted] for those who

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adepti-forent victoriam uti ei

might have obtained (had obtained) victory to use it

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diutius; quin qui posset-plus extorqueret

(longer); but (the party) who might be more powerful would wrest

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imperium atque libertatem defessis et exsanguibus.

authority and liberty from the wearied and exhausted.

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Tamen complures fuere extra conjurationem, qui

However many were without the conspiracy, who

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profecti-sunt initio ad Catilinam In his

set-out in the beginning to Catiline. Among these

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erat Fulvius, filius senatoris, quem parens jussit

was Fulvius, the son of a senator, whom (his) father ordered

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retractum ex itinere, necari. Iisdem

brought-back from (his) journey, to be-put-to-death, At the same

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temporibus Lentulus sollicitabat Romae quoscumque

times (time) Lentulus did stir-up at Rome whomsoever

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credebat idoneos, moribus aut fortuna, novis

he did believe fit, by morals or fortune, for new

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rebus, sicuti Catilina praeceperat; neque

things (a revolution), as Catiline had ordered neither

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solum cives, sed genus hominum cujuscumque

only citizens, but a kind of men of any (whatever)

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modi, quod modo foret usui bello. Igitur

description, which only might be for advautege to the war. Therefore

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dat negotium cuidam Publi o Umbreno,

he gives business a (commission) to a certain Publius Umbrenus,

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uti requirat legatos Allobrogum: que impellat

that he may find-out the deputies of the Allobroges: and impel

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eos, si possit, ad societatem belli, existumens

them, if he may be able, to an alliance of the war, thinking,

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eos oppressos publice que privatim alieno-aere:

those oppressed publicly and privately by debt:

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praeterea quod Galliea gens esset bellicosa.

moreover that the Gallic nation might be (was) warlike

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natura, posse facile adduci ad tale

by nature, to be able (might) easily be brougbt-over to such

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consilium. Umbrenus notus-erat plerisque principibus

a design. Umbrenus had been known to most the chief.

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civitatum, atque noverat eos, quod negotiatus-erat

of the states, and had known them, because he bad trafficked

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in Gallia: itaque sine mora, ubi-primum conspexit

in Gaul: therefore witbout delay, as-soon as he beheld

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legatos in foro, percuuctatus pauca

the deputies in the market-place, [forum], having inquired a few

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de statu civitatis, et quasi dolens

(things) concerning the condition of the state, and as-if bewailing

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casum ejus, coepit requirere quem exitum sperarent

the lot of it, began to ask what issue they might hope

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tantis malis. Postquam videt illos queri

to so-great evils. After he sees [that] them to complain

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de avaritit magistratuum, accusare

[they complain] of the avarice of the magistrates, to accuse

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senatum, quod esset nihil auxilii in

the senate, because there might be (was) nothing of redress in

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eo; exspectare mortem remedium suis

it; (and) to await death (as) a remedy for them

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miseriis: "At ego," inquit, "ostendam rationem

miseries: But I," he says, "will-point-out a plan

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vobis, si modo-vultis esse viri,

to you, if you-only-wish to be men, [if you would only be men],

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qua effugiatis ista tanta mala." Ubi dixit

by which you may eseape those so-great evils," When he said

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haec, Allobroges adducti in maxumam spem,

these (things), the Allobroges led into the greatest hope,

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orare Umbrenum uti misereretur sui:

(began) to entreat [Umbrenus] that he might pity themselves: [that]

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nihil esse tam asperum, neque tam difficile,

nothing to be [was] so rough, nor so difficult,

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quod facturi-essent non cupidissime,

which they would-be-about-to-do not most-desirously, [but that they

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dum ea res liberaret civitatem

would most willingly do], provided that thing might free the state

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alieno-aere. Ille perducit eos in domum Decii

from debt, He leads them into the house or Decius

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Bruti, quod erat propinqua foro, neque aliena

Brutus, because it was near to the forum, and not unacquainted

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consilii propter Semproniam, nam Brutus

of the design (conspiracy) on-account-of Sempronia, for Brutus

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aberat tum ab Roma. Praeterea arcessit

was absent then from Rome. Besides he sends-for

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Gabinium, quo major auctoritas inesset

Gabinius, in-order-that greater authority might be-in to (his)

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sermoni; eo praesente, aperit conjurationem,

diseourse; he being present, he discloses the conspiracy

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nominat socios, prretcrea multos innoxios

names the associates, moreover many innocent (men)

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cujusque generis, quo animus esset

of every kind, in-order-that mind (courage) might be

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amplior legatis: dein dimittit eos domum,

greater to the deputies: then he dimisses them home,

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pollicitos suam operam. Sed Allobroges habuere

having promised their assistance. But the Allobroges had

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diu in incertum, quidnam consilii

for-a-long time into uncertain (were in doubt), what of councel

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caperent. In altera parte erat alienum-aes,

they might take, In the other (one) part was debt,

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studium belli, magna merces in spe victoriae ; at

zeal of war, great reward in the hope of victory; but

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majores opes, tuta consilia, certa praemia pro

greater resources, safe counsels, certain rewards instead-of

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incerta spe in altera. Illis volventibus haec,

uncertain hope on the other (side). They revolving these

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tandem fortuna reipublieae vicit.

(things) at-length the fortune of the state prevailed.