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Tarquinius testimony

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Often appears with: temple of concord · lentulus imprisoned · crime and punishment · crassus and conspiracy · courts, trials, and pleading

Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1)

Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War primary

Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) · c. 44-40 BCE
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The senate hears the letters, removes Lentulus from office, detains the conspirators, and questions Tarquinius, whose claim about Crassus is rejected and treated as false.

too, was the twentieth year since the Capitol was burned; a year which the augurs, from certain omens, had often said would be stained with the blood of civil war." The letter then being read, the senate, when all had previously acknowledged their seals,[224] decreed that Lentulus, being deprived of his office, should, as well as the rest, be placed in private custody.[225] Lentulus, accordingly, was given in charge…