They have left to us denunciations of the man which have made him odious to all after-ages, so that modern poets have made him a stock character, and have dramatized him as a fiend.

Voltaire has described him as calling upon his fellow-conspirators to murder Cicero and Cato, and to burn the city.

Ben Jonson makes Catiline kill a slave and mix his blood, to be drained by his friends.

"There cannot be a fitter drink to make this sanction in." The friends of Catiline will say that this shows no evidence against the man.

None, certainly; but it is a continued expression of the feeling that has prevailed since Catiline's time.