catalinarians

Updated: June 1, 2025

But when Cato in pettifogging fashion brought the champions of the milder view into suspicion of being accomplices of the plot, and pointed to the preparations for liberating the prisoners by a street-riot, he succeeded in throwing the waverers into a fresh alarm, and in securing a majority for the immediate execution of the transgressors. Execution of the Catalinarians

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

But when Cato in pettifogging fashion brought the champions of the milder view into suspicion of being accomplices of the plot, and pointed to the preparations for liberating the prisoners by a street-riot, he succeeded in throwing the waverers into a fresh alarm, and in securing a majority for the immediate execution of the transgressors. Execution of the Catalinarians

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)