The proofs against them were so convincing that they could not deny it.

There were the signatures of some; arms were found hidden in the house of another.

The Senate decreed that the men should be kept in durance till some decision as to their fate should have been pronounced.

Each of them was then given in custody to some noble Roman of the day.

Lentulus the Praetor was confided to the keeping of a Censor, Cethegus to Cornificius, Statilius to Caesar, Gabinius to Crassus, and Caeparius, who had not fled very far before he was taken, to one Terentius.