[179] Robbed of the fruit of my labor and exertion--_Fructu laboris industriaeque meae privatus_. "The honors which he sought he elegantly calls the _fruit_ of his labor, because the one is obtained by the other." _Cortius_. [180] Post of honor due to me--_Statum dignitatis_. The consulship. [181] On my own security--_Meis nominibus_. "He uses the plural," says Herzogius, "because he had not borrowed once only, or from one person, but oftentimes, and from many." No other critic attempts to explain this point. For _alienis nominibus_, which follows, being in the plural, there is very good reason. My translation is in conformity with Bernouf's comment. [182] Proscribed--_Alienatum_. "Repulsed from all hope of the consulship." _Bernouf_. [183] Adopted a course--_Spes--secutus sum_. "_Spem sequi_ is a phrase often used when the direction of the mind to any thing, action, or course of conduct, and the subsequent election and adoption of what appears advantageous, is signified." _Cortius_. [184] Protection--_Fidei_. [185] Intreating you, by your love for your own children, to defend her from injury--_Eam ab injuria defendas, per liberos tuos rogatus_. "Defend her from injury, being intreated [to do so] by [or for the sake of] your own children." [186] XXXVI. In the neighborhood of Arretium--_In agro Arretino_. Havercamp, and many of the old editions, have _Reatino_; "but," says Cortius, "if Catiline went the direct road to Faesulae, as is rendered extremely probable by his pretense that he was going to Marseilles, and by the assertion of Cicero, made the day after his departure, that he was on his way to join Manlius, we must certainly read _Arretino_." Arretium (now _Arezzo_) lay in his road to Faesulae; Reate was many miles out of it. [187] In an extremely deplorable condition--_Multo maxime miserabile_. _Multe_ is added to superlatives, like _longe_. So c. 52, _multo pulcherrimam_ eam nos haberemus. Cortius gives several other instances. [188] Notwithstanding the two decrees of the senate--_Duobus senati decretis._ I have translated it "_the_ two decrees," with Rose. One of the two was that respecting the rewards mentioned in c. 30; the other was that spoken of in c. 36., allowing the followers of Catiline to lay down their arms before a certain day. [189] XXXVII. Endeavor to exalt the factious--_Malos extollunt_. They strive to elevate into office those who resemble themselves. [190] Poverty does not easily suffer loss--_Egestas facile habetur sine damna_ He that has nothing, has nothing to lose. Petron. Sat., c. 119: _Inops audacia tuta est_. [191] Had become disaffected--Praeceps abierat. Had grown demoralized, sunk in corruption, and ready to join in any plots against the state. So Sallust says of Sempronia, _praeceps abierat_, c. 25. [192] In the first place--Primum omnium. "These words refer, not to _item_ and _postremo in the same sentence, but to _deinde_ at the commencement of the next." _Bernouf_.