Is quom se diceret indicaturum de coniuratione si fides publica data esset, iussus a consule quae sciret edicere, eadem fere quae Volturcius de paratis incendiis, de caede bonorum, de itinere hostium senatum docet; praeterea se missum a M. Crasso qui Catilinae nuntiaret ne eum Lentulus et Cethegus aliique ex coniuratione deprehensi terrerent, eoque magis properaret ad urbem adcedere, quo et ceterorum animos reficeret et illi facilius e periculo eriperentur
When he said that he would disclose information concerning the conspiracy if he were given a formal pledge of immunity, upon being ordered by the consul to declare what he knew, he gave the senate practically the same account as Volturcius about the intended fires, the murder of loyal citizens, and the movement of the enemy; he added that he had been sent by Marcus Crassus to direct Catiline not to be alarmed by the arrest of Lentulus, Cethegus, and the other conspirators, but to hasten all the more to draw near the City, both so as to revive the spirits of the rest and so that those in custody might more easily be snatched from danger.
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