[100] _Antea_. Sallust, who has commenced speaking of the conspiracy entered into in the year B. C. 64, considers it necessary, before relating its progress, to go back to an earlier conspiracy, which failed, and in which Catiline had likewise taken an active part. This earlier conspiracy the author relates in chaps. 19 and 20. [101] _Qua_; supply _conjuratione_, which is to be taken from the verb _conjuravere_. This is an irregularity arising from the desire to be brief and concise. [102] That is, in the year B. C. 66, or 688 after the building of the city. [103] _Interrogati_--that is, _accusati_, 'taken to account by accusers,' because the beginning of all such accusations consisted in the accused being asked whether they owned having done this or that thing forbidden by law. [104] _Post paulo_ is less common than _paulo post_. [105] _Repetundarum reus_, 'accused of extortion.' _Res repetundae_, in legal phraseology, signifies the things or money which had been illegally taken by public officers from those subject to their authority; for such citizens or subjects had a right, after the expiration of the official year of their ruler, to reclaim (_repetere_) their property in a court of law. Those officers who were found guilty had, in addition, to pay a fine, or were otherwise punished. A person who stood accused of extortion was not allowed to come forward as a candidate for any other office before he was tried and acquitted. [106] _Profiteri_, 'to announce one's self' as a candidate for an office. [107] These are the consuls of the year B. C. 65, who had obtained their office after the condemnation of the above-mentioned P. Sulla (a nephew of the dictator) and P. Autronius. [108] _Hispanias_. Ancient Spain was, for administrative purposes, divided into two provinces--_Hispania Tarraconensis_, or _provincia citerior_, with Tarraco (the modern Tarragona) for its capital; and _Hispania Baetica_, or _ulterior_, deriving its name from the river Baitis (the modern Guadalquiver). Its chief towns were Corduba and Hispalis (now Seville). [109] About the force of _quod_, when joined to conjunctions, see Zumpt, S 807. Compare p.14, note 6 [note 14].