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Cataline was acting like a little princling, feeling entiteled to his office as consul, until the election of the Cicero, a new man. Not only the first of the equestrian class to be elected consul, he was the first novus homo in years. We must beware such behavior in the election of our senators. There was almost a revolution because Cicero was a new man. It is interesting, too, that it was he whom they chose to target. Cicero was a symbol of the Republican spirit. About the conspiracy Cicero didn’t lie: after all, Cicero took the power of the senatus consultum ultimum only long enough to end the threat to the republic, and then returned it. Caesar, on the other hand, took the frenetic reigns of power for life. Beware dictators at your gates; beware them even more on the ballot.

Tags: Cataline Conspiracy, Cicero, Roman agrarian legislation