A table is appended, containing the Roman and English Calendars of the three months during which all the events of the conspiracy occurred, illustrating the complicated and awkward mode of Roman computation; and this, I believe, is all that is needful in the way of simplifying or elucidating the narrative. TABLE OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR FOR THE MONTHS OF OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER, B. C. 63. OCTOBER, B. C. 63. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Modern | | Reckoning. | Roman Reckoning. | Events. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 |CALENDS OF OCTOBER. | 2 |VI ) | 3 |V ) Days before the | 4 |IV ) Nones. | 5 |III ) | 6 |_Day before the Nones._ | 7 |NONES OF OCTOBER. | 8 |VIII ) | 9 |VII ) | 10 |VI ) Days before | 11 |V ) the Ides | 12 |IV ) of October. | 13 |III ) | 14 |_Day before the Ides._ | 15 |IDES OF OCTOBER. | 16 |XVII ) |(A) On this day the Consular 17 |XVI ) |elections should have been 18(A) |XV ) |held, but were postponed by 19 |XIV ) Days before |the Senate at the request of 20 |XIII ) |the consul, Cicero. 21(B) |XII ) the |(B) Cicero delivered a speech, 22(C) |XI ) |(not one of the orations) against 23 |X ) Calends |Catiline, disclosing the plan of 24 |IX ) |the conspiracy. 25 |VIII ) of |(C) The Consular Elections were 26 |VII ) |held, and Decius Junius Silanus 27 |VI ) November. |and Lucius Licinius Muræna 28(D) |V ) |elected Consuls for the year 29 |IV ) |ensuing. 30 |III ) |(D) Day originally appointed 31 |_Day before the Calends |by Catiline for the murder of | of November._ |Cicero. NOVEMBER, B. C. 63.