This brief explanation made, no farther notes will, I believe, be found necessary; as the few Latin words which occur in the body of the work are explained therein; and the costumes and customs are described so much in detail, that they will be readily comprehended even by the unclassical reader.
A table is appended, containing the Roman and English Calendars of the three months during which all the events of the conspiracy occurred, illustrating the complicated and awkward mode of Roman computation; and this, I believe, is all that is needful in the way of simplifying or elucidating the narrative.
TABLE OF THE
ROMAN CALENDAR
FOR THE MONTHS OF
OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER,
B. C. 63.
OCTOBER, B. C. 63.
| Modern Reck- oning | Roman Reckoning | Events |
| 1 | Calends of October. | |
| 2 | VI ) | |
| 3 | V ) Days before the | |
| 4 | IV ) Nones. | |
| 5 | III ) | |
| 6 | Day before the Nones. | |
| 7 | Nones of October. | |
| 8 | VIII ) | |
| 9 | VII ) Days before | |
| 10 | VI ) the Ides | |
| 11 | V ) of October. | |
| 12 | IV ) | |
| 13 | III ) | |
| 14 | Day before the Ides. | |
| 15 | Ides of October. | |
| 16 | XVII ) | |
| 17 | XVI ) | |
| *18 | XV ) | *On this day the Consular elections should have been held, but were postponed by the Senate at the request of the consul, Cicero. |
| 19 | XIV ) Days before | |
| 20 | XIII ) | |
| **21 | XII ) the | **Cicero delivered a speech (not one of the orations) against Catiline, disclosing the plan of the conspiracy. |
| ***22 | XI ) | ***The Consular Elections were held, and Decius Junius Silanus and Lucius Licinius Muræna elected Consuls for the year ensuing. |
| 23 | X ) Calends | |
| 24 | IX ) | |
| 25 | VIII ) of | |
| 26 | VII ) | |
| 27 | VI ) November. | |
| ****28 | V ) | ****Day originally appointed by Catiline for the murder of Cicero. |
| 29 | IV ) | |
| 30 | III ) | |
| 31 | Day before the Calends of November. |
NOVEMBER, B. C. 63.
| Modern Reck- oning | Roman Reckoning | Events |
| *1 | Calends of November. | *Day appointed by Catiline for the seizure of the citadel of Præneste—now Palestrina. |
| 2 | IV ) Days before the | |
| 3 | III ) Nones. | |
| 4 | Day before the Nones. | |
| 5 | Nones of November. | |
| **6 | VIII ) | **Second meeting of the Conspirators at the house of Marcus Portius Læca. |
| ***7 | VII ) | ***Cicero's murder attempted. |
| ****8 | VI ) Days before | ****Cicero delivered his first Oration in the Senate against Catiline; and on the same night Catiline fled to the camp of Caius Manlius, at Fæsulæ, now Fiesole, near Florence. On the following day Cicero delivered the second oration, justifying his conduct to the whole people in the Forum. |
| 9 | V ) the Ides | |
| 10 | IV ) of November. | |
| 11 | III ) | |
| 12 | Day before the Ides. | |
| 13 | Ides of November. | |
| 14 | XVIII ) | |
| 15 | XVII ) | |
| 16 | XVI ) | |
| 17 | XV ) Days before | |
| 18 | XIV ) | |
| 19 | XIII ) the | |
| 20 | XII ) | |
| 21 | XI ) Calends | |
| 22 | X ) | |
| 23 | IX ) of | |
| 24 | VIII ) | |
| 25 | VII ) December. | |
| 26 | VI ) | |
| 27 | V ) | |
| 28 | IV ) | |
| 29 | III ) | |
| 30 | Day before the Calends of December. |
DECEMBER, B. C. 63.