First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline

| |Oct. 21st: Letters brought by Crassus, threatening danger to the State: the Senate convened in the temple of Concord. The Senate passes decretum ultimum. On 22nd Oct. L. Licinius Murena and D. Junius Silanus elected consuls.

|Oct. 23rd: Catiline accused under Lex Plautia de vi by Lucius Paulus.

|Oct. 27th: Manlius takes up arms in Etruria.

|Oct. 28th: Day appointed by Catiline for the murder of the leading senators. (Cat. I., 3).

|Nov. 1: Catiline endeavors to take Praeneste by a night attack.

|Nov. 6th: Catiline assembles his friends at house of Laeca.

|Nov. 7th: Vargunteius and Cornelius attempt to assassinate Cicero.

|Nov. 8th: Catiline leaves Rome.

| |Nov. 8: Cicero invokes the Senate in the temple of Juppiter Stator. First Catilinarian oration delivered.

| |The second Catilinarian oration delivered from the rostra to the people, Nov. 9th.

|Nov. 20th: A&nbs