[294] A certain officer of Faesulae--_Faesulanum quemdam_. "He is thought to have been that P. Furius, whom Cicero (Cat., iii. 6, 14) mentions as having been one of the colonists that Sylla settled at Faesulae, and who was to have been executed, if he had been apprehended, for having been concerned in corrupting the Allobrogian deputies." _Dietsch_. Plutarch calls this officer Furius. [295] His freedmen--_Libertis_. "His own freedmen, whom he probably had about him as a body-guard, deeming them the most attached of his adherents. Among them was, possibly, that Sergius, whom we find from Cic. pro Domo, 5, 6, to have been Catiline's armor bearer." _Dietsch_. [296] The colonists--_Colonis_. "Veterans of Sylla, who had been settled by him as colonists in Etruria, and who had now been induced to join Catiline." _Gerlach_. See c. 28. [297] By the eagle--_Propter aquilam_. See Cic. in Cat., i. 9. [298] Being lame--_Pedibus aeger_. It has been common among translators to render _pedibus aeger_ afflicted with the gout, though a Roman might surely be lame without having the gout. As the lameness of Antonius, however, according to Dion Cassius (xxxvii. 39), was only pretended, it may be thought more probable that he counterfeited the gout than any other malady. It was with this belief, I suppose, that the writer of a gloss on one of the manuscripts consulted by Cortius, interpreted the words, _ultroneam passus est podogram_, "he was affected with a voluntary gout." Dion Cassius says that he preferred engaging with Antonius, who had the larger army, rather than with Metellus, who had the smaller, because he hoped that Antonius would designedly act in such a way as to lose the victory. [299] To meet the present insurrection--_Tumulti causa_. Any sudden war or insurrection in Italy or Gaul was called _tumultus_. See Cic. Philipp. v. 12. [300] Their temples and their homes--_Aris atque focis suis_. See c. 52. [301] LX. In a furious charge--_Infestis siqnis_. [302] Offering but partial resistance--_Alios alibi resistentes_. Not making a stand in a body, but only some in one place, and some in another. [303] Among the first, etc.--_In primis pugnantes cadunt_. Cortius very properly refers _in primis_ to _cadunt_. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE. EXTRACTED FROM DE BROSSES. A.U.C 685.--COSS. L. CAECILIUS METELLUS, Q. MARCIIS REX.--Catiline is Praetor. 686.--C. CALPURNIUS PISO, M. ACILIUS GLABRIO.--Catiline Governor of Africa. 687.--L. VOLCATIUS TULLUS, M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS.--Deputies from Africa accuse Catiline of extortion, through the agency of Clodius. He is obliged to desist from standing for the consulship, and forms the project of the first conspiracy. See Sall. Cat., c. 18.