71/78 Catiline!--Cethegus!--march forward, the soldiers of Sylla are in the city, and the consul himself undertakes to disarm the Romans. The measure is full,--it overflows!" Petion strove miserably to justify himself in a letter in which his weakness and connivance revealed themselves beneath the multiplicity of excuses. At the same time Robespierre, mounting the tribune of the Jacobins, exclaimed, "You do not trace to their source the obstacles that oppose the expansion of the sentiments of the people. Against whom think you that you have to strive? |