It was as natural as that a flock of sheep should lose their wool at shearing time.

He came back intent, as was natural also, on being a Consul, and of carrying on the game of promotion and of plunder.

But there came a spoke in his wheel--the not unusual spoke of an accusation from the province.

While under accusation for provincial robbery he could not come forward as a candidate, and thus he was stopped in his career.
It is not possible now to unravel all the personal feuds of the time--the ins and outs of family quarrels.

Clodius--the Clodius who was afterward Cicero's notorious enemy and the victim of Milo's fury--became the accuser of Catiline on behalf of the Africans.