Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historiae Romanae, book 37, chapter 39

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39. καὶ ὁ μὲν καὶ ἐκ τούτου πολὺ μᾶλλον ἐμισήθη, Κατιλίνας δὲ ἐν ἀρχῇ εὐθὺς τοῦ ἔτους ἐν ᾧ Ἰούνιός ¹ τε Σιλανὸς καὶ Λούκιος Λικίννιος ἦρξαν ἀπεφθάρη. τέως μὲν γὰρ καίπερ δύναμιν οὐκ ὀλίγην ἔχων ἐκαραδόκει τὰ τοῦ Λεντούλου καὶ διέμελλεν ἐλπίζων, ἂν φθάσωσιν ὅ τε Κικέρων καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ σφαγέντες, ῥᾳδίως τὰ λοιπὰ [2] προσκατεργάσεσθαι: ² ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐκεῖνόν τε ἀπολωλότα ἐπύθετο καὶ τῶν συνόντων οἱ συχνοὺς μεθισταμένους διὰ τοῦτ᾽ ᾔσθετο, ὅ τε Ἀντώνιος καὶ ὁ Μέτελλος ὁ Κέλερ πρὸς ταῖς Φαισούλαις προσεδρεύοντες οὐδαμῇ προελθεῖν ³ αὐτῷ ἐπέτρεπον, ἀποκινδυνεῦσαι ἠναγκάσθη, καί ῾ἦσαν γὰρ δίχα ἐστρατοπεδευμένοἰ πρὸς τὸν Ἀντώνιον ἐτράπετο, [p. 162] καίπερ τῷ ἀξιώματι προέχοντα τοῦ Μετέλλου [3] καὶ δύναμιν πλείω περιβεβλημένον. αἴτιον δὲ ὅτι ἐλπίδα αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὸ συνώμοτον ἐθελοκακήσειν ἔσχεν. ὑποπτεύσας οὖν τοῦτ᾽ ἐκεῖνος, καὶ μήτε δι᾽ εὐνοίας ἔτ᾽ αὐτῷ ἅτε ἀσθενεῖ ὄντι ὤν ῾πρός τε γὰρ τὰς δυνάμεις τινῶν καὶ πρὸς τὰ ἑαυτῶν συμφέροντα καὶ τὰς ἔχθρας τάς τε φιλίας [4] οἱ πολλοὶ ποιοῦνταἰ, καὶ προσκαταδείσας μή πως προθύμως σφᾶς ἀγωνιζομένους ἰδὼν ἐξονειδίσῃ τι καὶ προενέγκῃ οἱ τῶν ἀπορρήτων, αὐτὸς μὲν νοσεῖν προεφασίσατο, Μάρκῳ δὲ Πετρεΐῳ τὴν

1 *)iou/nio/s Xyl., i)ou/lio/s L.

2 proskaterga/sesqai Dind., proskaterga/sasqai L.

3 proelqei=n Leuncl., proselqei=n L.

Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.

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