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O MISERUM: 'O, wretched is that old man'. Cicero oftener joins O with the accusative than with the nominative: he rarely, if ever, uses the interjection with the vocative in direct address to persons. Lucretius, De Rerum Nat. 3, 417 et seq.; cf. also Caesar's argument at the trial of the Catilinian conspirators, Sall. Bell. DEDUCIT: cf. n. on 63. ATQUI: see n. on 6.
The author of this improvement in history was SALLUST, who likewise introduced the method of enlivening narrative with the occasional aid of rhetorical declamation, particularly in his account of the Catilinian conspiracy.
He was tried for the impiety, and, through the efforts of Cicero, was almost convicted, though he managed to escape by bribery. He was ever afterward a determined enemy of the great orator, and, by the aid of Pompey, Cæsar, and Crassus, finally succeeded in having him condemned for putting to death the Catilinian conspirators without due process of law.
Nay, it is probable that Sallust was present in the senate during the debate respecting the punishment of the Catilinian conspirators; his detail of which is agreeable to the characters of the several speakers: but in detracting, by invidious silence, or too faint representation, from the merits of Cicero on that important occasion, he exhibits a glaring instance of the partiality which too often debases the narratives of those who record the transactions of their own time.
He is a boon companion with Marcus Læca, the old Catilinian, who is a smooth-headed villain, and to use a phrase of my father's good friend Cicero 'has his head and eyebrows always shaved, that he may not be said to have one hair of an honest man about him. But he will have to reckon with me now. Now it is my turn to talk. Your long story has been very short. Nor is mine long.
All these cases combined political views with criminal charges. Cælius was declared to have been a Catilinian conspirator.
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