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A11365	The workes of Caius Crispus Salustius contayning the Conspiracie of Cateline The Warre of Iugurth. V. bookes of historicall fragments. II orations to Cæsar for the institution of a co[m]monwealth and one against Cicero.; Works. English	Sallust, 86-34 B.C.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Crosse, William, b. 1589 or 90.	1629 (1629)	STC 21624; ESTC S116413	135,399	756

did approue Catilines vndertakings and this seemes to be done according to custome for alwayes in a Common-wealth those men whose fortunes are low enuy the good magnifie the bad mislike antiquities wish for nouelties and in disdaine of their proper estates they desire a generall alteration feeding themselues securely with troubles and tumults because their pouerty could hardly bee damnified But as for the Plebeians of the City they precipitated themselues into this action through sundry motiues First of all those who most exceeded in lewdnesse and petulancy then those who had shamefully wasted their Patrimonies and lastly all snch whom some notorious offence or outrage had expelled from their owue dwellings the confluence of these repaired to Rome as if it had beene a sinke of receite Besides many others being mindefull of Syllaes victorie because they had seene some common Souldiers made Senatours and others so inriched that in dyet and apparell they liued after a Royall manner hoped to reape such fruites by the victory if that were purchased by their Armes Moreouer the Peazant youth who by the hire of their hands had got their liuings in the fields being allured with the hope of priuate and publicke largesses had preferred the Citties ease before the thriftlesse Country labour These and all others of this kind did feed on the publike calamity It being a matter not much to be wondred at that penurious persons of euill conditions and aspiring mindes should equally neglect themselues and the Common-wealth Moreouer such as had their parents proscribed their goods confiscated and the priuiledge of their liberties intrenched vpon by the rigour of Syllaes victory did attend the euent of this warre with a resolution answerable to the former Againe whosoeuer were of any faction except of the Senatorian did rather desire the trouble then the tranquillity of the State This mischiefe after many forepassed yeeres made his reuerse againe into the Citty For after the Tribunitiall power was restored Cn. Pompeius and M. Crassus being Consuls certaine young men hauing gotten the soueraigne authority whose yeeres and spirits were disposed to violence they began by traducing the Senate to exasperate the common people and then to ingage them further by their large gifts and promises by which popular courses they themselues became renowned and powerfull Against these Innouatours the greatest part of the Nobility opposed themselues with the strongest meanes that they could vnder the pretence of maintaining the Senate but indeed for the support of their owne greatnesse For that I may briefly deliuer the truth whosoeuer in these times disturbed the publicke peace counterfeiting the care of the Common-wealth vnder the fauour of honest names as to be protectours of the peoples priuiledges or aduancers of the Senates authority all of them stroue to inlarge their owne power Neither was there any meane nor modesty in their contentious courses and being victorious they were euer vnmercifull But after that Cn. Pompeius was sent vnto the maritime and Mithrida●icke warres the Plebeian faction declined all greatnesse being ingrossed by some few These intrested themselues with Magistracies Prouinces and all other dignities Then they spent their time in security flourishing without any mans disturbance As for the rest they terrified them with their seuerity the meanes by which they thought to rule the people best in this their vsurped Magistracy But as soone as the first hope of innouation presented it selfe the former quarrell inflamed their courages so that if Catiline had beene superiour in the first Battell or had fallen off vpon equall termes for certaine a miserable slaughter and calamity had oppressed the Romane State for those who had vanquished should not long haue inioyed the benefit of the victory but a stronger party would haue extorted from them being weary and wounded their acquired Empire and liberty There were many men besides not listed in the Conspiracy who with the first went forth to Catiline Amongst these there was one A. Fuluius the sonne of a Senator who being fetcht backe as hee was vpon his iourney was slaine by his fathers command CHAP. 12. Lentulus strengthneth his party at Rome Vmbrenus acquaints the Ambassadours of the Allobroges with the plot Sanga gets a draught of it DVring the time of these occurences Lentulus sollicited at Rome either by him-selfe or his Agents according as Catiline had giuen order all those whom for their conditions or fortune he thought fit instruments for his purpose Neither did he deale with the Cittizens alone but with all sorts of men that were seruiceable for the warres To this end hee giues instructions to P. Vmbrenus that he should found the Ambassadours of the Allobroges and draw them if he could into the society of this action thinking that they would easily be perswaded to ioyne as being in priuate and publicke much indebted and besides the nation of the Gaules is by nature in clined to Armes Vmbrenus by reason he had negotiated in Gaule did know and was knowne vnto most of their principall Citizens Therefore as soone as he saw the Ambassadours in the Common-hall hauing made some few demands concerning the State of their Citty and seeming to deplore her wrerched case he began to inquire what end they did expect of these their great greeuances When he perceiued that they complayned by way of reply of the couetousnesse of the Magistrates and blamed the Senate because they could haue no redresse from them and that they expected no remedy for their miseries but by death onely Why then saith he if you will shew your selues men I will put you into a course by which you may shunne all these inconueniences As soone as he had deliuered these words the Allobroges being possest with great hopes importune Vmbrenus to take compassion on them for there was nothing so dreadfull nor difficult but they would vndertake to doe it willingly so that the performance of it would free their Citty from her debts Thence he brings them into the house of D. Brutus as being neere to the Common-hall and by meanes of Sempronia no stranger vnto the plot And Brutus was as then absent from Rome Besides that his speech might carry the more authority he sends for Galinius Hee being present Vmbrenus discloseth the conspiracy at large Hee names the confederates and with them many men of sundry degrees being altogether innocent and this he did to giue further incouragement to the Ambassadours Then he dismisseth them home after they had promised their best assistance But as for the Allobroges they stucke long vpon doubtfull resolutions On the one side stood their debts their inclination to war and the large rewards expected from the victory On the other side they beheld a stronger party safe courses and certaine rewards for vncertaine hopes They pondering these things in their minds the fortune of the Republicke at length preuailed And so they deliuered vnto Q. Fabius Sanga a man whose patronage their Citty much vsed a full draught of the Conspiracy according