For despite the Senate’s two decrees, no one out of such a large number of men had been induced by the rewards to reveal the conspiracy, and not a single person had defected from Catiline’s camp. Such was the intensity of the disease that, like a plague, had attacked the souls of many citizens. Nor was it only accomplices in the conspiracy whose minds were disturbed. The entirety of the common people were in favor of Catiline’s undertakings because of their eagerness for revolution.
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