What credit is due to Rush is due to Catiline.
What we believe to be the story of Catiline's life is this: In Sulla's time he was engaged, as behooved a great nobleman of ancient blood, in carrying out the Dictator's proscriptions and in running through whatever means he had.

There are fearful stories told of him as to murdering his own son and other relatives; as to which Mr.Beesly is no doubt right in saying that such tales were too lightly told in Rome to deserve implicit confidence.

To serve a purpose any one would say anything of any enemy.

Very marvellous qualities are attributed to him--as to having been at the same time steeped in luxury and yet able and willing to bear all bodily hardships.

He probably had been engaged in murders--as how should a man not have been so who had served under Sulla during the Dictatorship?
He had probably allured some young aristocrats into debauchery, when all young aristocrats were so allured.
He had probably undergone some extremity of cold and hunger.