He went, and Cicero had been so far successful.
But these men, Lentulus, Cethegus, and the other Senators, though they had not dared to sit near Catiline in the Senate, or to speak a word to him, went about their work zealously when evening had come.

A report was spread among the people that the Consul had taken upon himself to drive a citizen into exile.

Catiline, the ill-used Catiline--Catiline, the friend of the people, had, they said, gone to Marseilles in order that he might escape the fury of the tyrant Consul.

In this we see the jealousy of Romans as to the infliction of any punishment by an individual officer on a citizen.

It was with a full knowledge of what was likely to come that Cicero had ironically declared that he only advised the conspirator to go.