[301] LX. In a furious charge—Infestis siqnis.
[302] Offering but partial resistance—Alios alibi resistentes. Not making a stand in a body, but only some in one place, and some in another.
[303] Among the first, etc.—In primis pugnantes cadunt. Cortius very properly refers in primis to cadunt.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE.
EXTRACTED FROM DE BROSSES.
A.U.C 685.—COSS. L. CAECILIUS METELLUS, Q. MARCIIS REX.—Catiline is
Praetor.
686.—C. CALPURNIUS PISO, M. ACILIUS GLABRIO.—Catiline Governor of Africa.
687.—L. VOLCATIUS TULLUS, M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS.—Deputies from Africa accuse Catiline of extortion, through the agency of Clodius. He is obliged to desist from standing for the consulship, and forms the project of the first conspiracy. See Sall. Cat., c. 18.
688.—L. MANLIUS TORQUATUS, L. AURELIUS COTTA.—Jan. 1: Catiline's project of the first conspiracy becomes known, and he defers the execution of it to the 5th of February, when he makes an unsuccessful attempt to execute it. July 17: He is acquitted of extortion, and begins to canvass for the consulship for the year 690.
689.—L. JULIUS CAESAR, C. MARCIUS FIGULUS THERMUS.—June 1: Catiline convokes the chiefs of the second conspiracy. He is disappointed in his views on the consulship.