




                           THE ROMAN TRAITOR:

                                   OR

                 THE DAYS OF CICERO, CATO AND CATALINE.


                      A TRUE TALE OF THE REPUBLIC.


                         BY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT
        AUTHOR OF "CROMWELL," "MARMADUKE WYVIL," "BROTHERS," ETC.



                       Why not a Borgia or a Catiline?—POPE.





VOLUME II.



          This is one of the most powerful Roman stories  in  the  English
          language,  and  is of itself sufficient to stamp the writer as a
          powerful man. The  dark  intrigues  of  the  days  which  Cæsar,
          Sallust  and  Cicero  made illustrious; when Cataline defied and
          almost defeated the Senate;  when  the  plots  which  ultimately
          overthrew the Roman Republic were being formed, are described in
          a masterly manner. The book deserves a permanent position by the
          side  of  the  great _Bellum Catalinarium_ of Sallust, and if we
          mistake not will not fail to  occupy  a  prominent  place  among
          those produced in America.


Philadelphia:
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       Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
                             T. B. PETERSON,
 In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, in and
                for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.




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CONTENTS




VOLUME I.


CHAPTER                    PAGE
     I.   THE MEN             9
    II.   THE MEASURES       25
   III.   THE LOVERS         37
    IV.   THE CONSUL         51
     V.   THE CAMPUS         69
    VI.   THE FALSE LOVE     89
   VII.   THE OATH          108
  VIII.   THE TRUE LOVE     121
    IX.   THE AMBUSH        137
     X.   THE WANTON        146
    XI.   THE RELEASE       166
   XII.   THE FORGE         183
  XIII.   THE DISCLOSURE    197
   XIV.   THE WARNINGS      209
    XV.   THE CONFESSION    223
   XVI.   THE SENATE        235




VOLUME II.


    I.   THE OLD PATRICIAN      3
   II.   THE CONSULAR          12
         COMITIA
  III.   THE PERIL             21
   IV.   THE CRISIS            29
    V.   THE ORATION           38
   VI.   THE FLIGHT            54
  VII.   THE AMBASSADORS       65
 VIII.   THE LATIN VILLA       75
   IX.   THE MULVIAN BRIDGE    88
    X.   THE ARREST           101
   XI.   THE YOUNG            113
         PATRICIAN
  XII.   THE ROMAN FATHER     123
 XIII.   THE DOOM             136
  XIV.   THE TULLIANUM        150
   XV.   THE CAMP IN THE      158
         APPENINES
  XVI.   THE WATCHTOWER OF    168
         USELLA
 XVII.   TIDINGS FROM ROME    185
XVIII.   THE RESCUE           192
  XIX.   THE EVE OF BATTLE    205
   XX.   THE FIELD OF         216
         PISTORIA
  XXI.   THE BATTLE           223
 XXII.   A NIGHT OF HORROR    234






                            THE ROMAN TRAITOR;

                             OR, THE DAYS OF

                        CICERO, CATO AND CATALINE.

                       A TRUE TALE OF THE REPUBLIC.





CHAPTER I.


THE OLD PATRICIAN.


        A Roman father of the olden time.
                  MS. PLAY.

In a small street, not far from the Sacred Way and the Roman Forum, there
was a large house, occupying the whole of one _insula_, as the space
contained between four intersecting streets was called by the ancients.

But, although by its great size and a certain rude magnificence, arising
from the massy stone-work of its walls, and the solemn antiquity of the
old Oscan columns which adorned its entrance, it might be recognised at
once as the abode of some Patrician family; it was as different in many
respects from the abodes of the arist