Fuere ea tempestate qui dicerent Catilinam oratione habita quom ad ius iurandum popularis sceleris sui adigeret, humani corporis sanguinem vino permixtum in pateris circumtulisse; inde quom post exsecrationem omnes degustavissent, sicuti in sollemnibus sacris fieri consuevit, aperuisse consilium suom; idque eo [dictitare] fecisse quo inter se fidi magis forent, alius alii tanti facinoris conscii.
(There were some in that period who claimed that Catiline passed around bowls of human blood mixed with wine, when, after finishing his address, he bound the participants in his criminal enterprise with an oath; that then, when all had tasted it after taking an oath sealed with a curse'as is usual in solemn rites'he disclosed his project; and that he did this so that they might be more faithful to one another, each sharing the guilty knowledge of so dreadful a deed.
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