Tribunes' power

Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War primary

The translator’s notes explain Sallust’s phrasing about Rome’s senate decrees, tribunes’ restored powers, and related events, including references to legal punishments and political procedures during Catiline’s conspiracy.

in his Life of Cicero, says that there were then at Rome *two deputies* from this Gallic nation, sent to complain of oppression on the part of the Roman governors. [201] As Brutus was then absent from Borne--_Nam tum Brutus ab Româ, aberat_. From this remark, say Zanchius and Omnibonus, it is evident that Brutus was not privy to the conspiracy. "What sort of woman *Sempronia* was, has been told in c. 25. Some have t…