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Having taken these measures, Catiline, notwithstanding his late repulse, declared himself a candidate for the consulship against the ensuing year, in hopes, if he should be chosen, of using Antonius as he pleased. Nor was he inactive in the mean time; but contriving endless machinations for the destruction of Cicero, who was not wanting in dexterity and subtlety to defeat them; for, from the beginning of his consulship, he had successfully employed Fulvia to engage, by force of promises, Q. Curius, whom we have already mentioned, to discover all Catiline’s designs: and by promising a province to his colleague, he had prevailed on him not to act against the state. Besides, he had always about him a number of his friends and clients to guard his person. When the day of election came, Catiline, finding that neither his suit for the consulship, nor his plots to cut off Cicero in the field of Mars, had succeeded, determined on open war, and to try the utmost extremities, since his secret attempts had ended in disappointment and infamy.