[956] Plutarch, Cicero, 19.

[957] Sallust, Catiline, 27, 28.

[958] This is deduced from what Florus (III. 6) says of the command of the fleet which L. Gellius had, and from a passage in Cicero. (First Oration after his Return, 7.)—L. Gellius expresses himself clearly upon the danger the Republic had run, and proposed the awarding of a civic crown to Cicero. (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, XII. 21; Oration against Piso, 3.—Aulus Gellius, V. 6.)

[959] Cicero, First Catiline Oration, 1; Second Catiline Oration, 1.

[960] Sallust, Catiline, 32.

[961] Sallust, Catiline, 30, 31.—Plutarch, Cicero, 17.

[962] Sallust, Catiline, 47.

[963] Sallust, Catiline, 51.—Appian, Civil Wars, II. 6.

[964] Cicero, Fourth Catiline Oration, 1.

[965] Cicero, Fourth Catiline Oration, 2.