Your name has been mentioned." "Mine! good Gods! I call Heaven to witness that I never so much as mentioned Senate, Consul, or Comitia, in Catiline's house." "Nobody suspects you of any participation in the inmost counsels of the party.

But our great men surmise that you are among those whom he has bribed so high with beauty, or entangled so deeply in distress, that they are no longer their own masters.

I shall never set foot within his threshold again.

I have been solemnly warned by men who understand public affairs; and I advise you to be cautious." The friends had now turned into the Forum, which was thronged with the gay and elegant youth of Rome.

"I can tell you more," continued Flaminius; "somebody was remarking to the Consul yesterday how loosely a certain acquaintance of ours tied his girdle.