And he also afterwards, when a countless multitude of virtuous men had come to him from the
Capitol as suppliants, and in morning garments, and when all the most noble young men of Rome,
and all the Roman knights, had thrown themselves at the feet of that most profligate pander,
with what an expression of countenance did that curled and perfumed debauchee reject, not only
the tears of the citizens, but even the prayers of his country! Nor was he content with that
but he even went up to the assembly, and there said what even if his man Catiline had come to
life again he would not have dared to say,—that he would make the Roman knights pay for the
nones of December of my consulship, and for the Capitoline Hill; and he not only said this,
but he even summoned those before him that suited him. And this imperious consul actually
banished from the city Lucius Lamia, a Roman knight, a man of the highest character, and a
very eager advocate of my safety, because of his intimacy with me, and very much attached to
the state, as it was likely that a man of his fortune would be. And when you had passed a
resolution to change your garments, and had changed them, and though, indeed, all virtuous men
had already done the same thing, he, reeking with perfumes, clad in his