xiv., 41: "Catilinam quocunque in populo videas." It is hard to find a good man, but it is easy enough to put your hand anywhere on a Catiline.
[182] Val Maximus, lib.v., viii., 5; lib.ix., 1, 9; lib.ix., xi., 3.
[183] Florus, lib.

iv.
[184] Mommsen's History of Rome, book v., chap v.
[185] I feel myself constrained here to allude to the treatment given to Catiline by Dean Merivale in his little work on the two Roman Triumvirates.

The Dean's sympathies are very near akin to those of Mr.Beesly, but he values too highly his own historical judgment to allow it to run on all fours with Mr.Beesly's sympathies.

"The real designs," he says, "of the infamous Catiline and his associates must indeed always remain shrouded in mystery.

* * * Nevertheless, it is impossible to deny, and on the whole it would be unreasonable to doubt, that such a conspiracy there really was, and that the very existence of the commonwealth was for a moment seriously imperilled." It would certainly be unreasonable to doubt it.