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Now, when all the rest remained fearful and irresolute, C. Cornelius, a Roman knight, and L. Vargunteius, a senator, offered their services: they agreed to go that very night to Cicero’s house, with a few armed men, under pretence of making him a visit, and to assassinate him by surprise. Curius, as soon as he learned what danger threatened the consul, despatched Fulvia to acquaint him with the plot; so that when they came entrance was denied them, and their black attempt frustrated.

Meanwhile Manlius was exciting the people in Eturia to take arms; who, both from their poverty and their resentment of the injuries done them under Sylla’s usurpation, when they were deprived of their lands and all they had, were of themselves desirous of innovations. He likewise engaged robbers of all kinds, who were very numerous in that country, with some of Sylla’s old soldiers too, who by their intemperance and extravagance had squandered away all their former acquisitions.