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And I, as I saw that those whom I knew to be inflamed with the greatest madness and
wickedness were among us, and had remained at Rome, spent ail my nights and days in taking
care to know and see what they were doing, and what they were contriving that, since what I
said would, from the incredible enormity of the wickedness, make less impression on your
ears, I might so detect the whole business that you might with all your hearts provide for
your safety, when you saw the crime with your own eyes. Therefore, when I found that the
ambassadors of the Allobroges had been tampered with by Publius Lentulus, for the sake of
exciting a Transalpine war and commotion in Gaul, and that they, on their return to Gaul, had
been sent with letters and messages to Catiline on the same road, and that Vulturcius had
been added to them as a companion, and that he too had had letters given him for Catiline, I
thought that an opportunity wits given me of contriving what was most difficult, and which I
was always wishing the immortal gods might grant, that the whole business might be manifestly
detected not by me alone, but by the senate also, and by you.
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