The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline, and as the people clamoured to know why the conspirator had been allowed to escape, the Consul confessed that he had not proof sufficient to arrest him.
Before long the city was startled to hear that the fugitive had not gone to Marseilles, but to the camp at Fæsulæ, where he was now in command of the army.
The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline.
CHAPTER CIV
THE DEATH OF THE CONSPIRATORS
The Senate no sooner knew that Catiline was with the army than it proclaimed both him and Manlius public enemies.
A messenger was sent to the camp to offer pardon to any who should leave it within a certain time. But no one took advantage of this offer, while many soldiers continued to crowd into it. Rome grew more and more alarmed.
Antonius, the colleague of Cicero, was sent at the head of an army to Fæsulæ. As he was a friend of Catiline he pretended to be ill, and his army did the conspirators no harm. Cicero himself stayed to guard the city, for it was suspected that there was treachery within her walls.
Soon after this the Consul unexpectedly received the proof of the conspirators’ guilt.