A few minutes afterward, in the gleaming of the evening, when Cicero was being led home by the applauding multitude, he was asked after the fate of the conspirators.

He answered them but by one word "Vixerunt"-- there is said to have been a superstition with the Romans as to all mention of death--"They have lived their lives." As to what was being done outside Rome with the army of conspirators in Etruria, it is not necessary for the biographer of Cicero to say much.
Catiline fought, and died fighting.

The conspiracy was then over.

On the 31st of December Cicero retired from his office, and Catiline fell at the battle of Pistoia on the 5th of January following, B.C.

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A Roman historian writing in the reign of Tiberius has thought it worth his while to remind us that a great glory was added to Cicero's consular year by the birth of Augustus--him who afterward became Augustus Caesar.[211] Had a Roman been living now, he might be excused for saying that it was an honor to Augustus to have been born in the year of Cicero's Consulship..