NOTES TO THE ROMAN TRAITOR.

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It is perhaps hardly necessary to state, that the oration of
Cicero in the 37th page of the second volume, those of Cæsar
and Cato in the 137th and 142d pages, and that of Catiline
in the 217th page of the same, are all literal translations from
the actual speeches delivered on those occasions, and recorded by
Cicero and Sallust.

It was absolutely necessary for the truth and spirit of the romance,
that these speeches should be inserted; and the author
considered that it would be equally vain and absurd to attempt
fictitious orations, when these master-pieces of ancient eloquence
were extant.

This brief explanation made, no farther notes will, I believe,
be found necessary; as the few Latin words which occur in
the body of the work are explained therein; and the costumes
and customs are described so much in detail, that they will be
readily comprehended even by the unclassical reader.

A table is appended, containing the Roman and English Calendars
of the three months during which all the events of the
conspiracy occurred, illustrating the complicated and awkward
mode of Roman computation; and this, I believe, is all that is
needful in the way of simplifying or elucidating the narrative.

TABLE OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR FOR THE MONTHS OF OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER, B. C. 63.

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OCTOBER, B.C. 63.

Modern Reckoning	Roman Reckoning.	Events.
1	Calends of October.
2	VI Days before the Nones.
3	V
4	IV
5	III
6	Day before the Nones.
7	Nones of October.
8	VIII Days before the Ides of October.
9	VII
10	VI
11	V
12	IV
13	III
14	Day before the Ides.
15	Ides of October.
16	XVII Days before the Calends of November.	** On this day the Consular elections should have been held, but were postponed by the Senate at the request of the consul, Cicero.
17	XVI
18**	XV
19	XIV
20	XIII
21‡	XII	‡ Cicero delivered a speech (not one of the orations) against Catiline, disclosing the plan of the conspiracy.
22‡‡	XI
23	X
24	IX
25	VIII	‡‡ The Consular Elections were held, and Decius Junius Silanus and Lucius Licinius Muræna elected Consuls for the year ensuing.
26	VII
27	VI
28&verbar2;	V
29	IV
30	III	&verbar2; Day originally appointed by Catiline for the murder of Cicero.
31	Day before the Calends of November.

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NOVEMBER, B.C. 63.

Modern Reckoning	Roman Reckoning.	Events.
1[9]	Calends of November.	eaf146v2.n9[9] Day appointed by Catiline for the seizure of the citadel of Præneste—now Palestrina.
2	IV Days before the Nones.
3	III
4	Day before the Nones.
5	Nones of November.
6†	VIII Days before the Ides of November.	eaf146v2.dag2† Second meeting of the Conspirators at the house of Marcus Portius Læca.
7‡	VII
8&verbar2;	VI
9	V	eaf146v2.ddag3‡ Cicero's murder attempted
10	IV
11	III	eaf146v2.ver1&verbar2; Cicero delivered his first Oration in the Senate against Catiline; and on the same night Catiline fled to the camp of Caius Manlius, at Fæsulæ, now Fiesole, near Florence. On the following day Cicero delivered the second oration, justifying his conduct to the whole people in the Forum.
12	Day before the Ides.
13	Ides of November.
14	XVIII Days before the Calends of December.
15	XVII
16	XVI
17	XV
18	XIV
19	XIII
20	XII
21	XI
22	X
23	IX
24	VIII
25	VII
26	VI
27	V
28	IV
29	III
30	Day before the Calends of December.

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DECEMBER, B.C. 63.

Modern Reckoning	Roman Reckoning.	Events.
1	Calends of December.
2	IV Days before the Nones.
3[11]	III	eaf146v2.n11[11] The conspirators arrested.
4	Day before the Nones.
5†	Nones of December.	eaf146v2.dag3 † Cicero delivers his third oration before the Senate, and his fourth before the people.
6‡	VIII Days before the Ides of December.
7	VII
8	VI	eaf146v2.dag4‡ Execution of Lentulus, Cethegus, Gabinius, Statilius, and Cæparius.
9	V
10	IV
11	III
12	Day before the Ides.
13	Ides of December.
14	XVIII Days before the Calends of January.
15	XVII
16	XVI
17	XV
18	XIV	eaf146v2.ver2&verbar2; It is a matter of some question, whether the battle of Pistoria was fought, and Catiline slain, during the remainder of this month, or early in the following January.— The question being doubtful, for the sake of unity, I have assumed that it was fought on or about the 26th day of the month.
19	XIII
20	XII
21	XI
22	X
23	IX
24	VIII
25	VII
26&verbar2;	VI
27	V
28	IV
29	III	eaf146v2.sec1§ Cicero abdicated the Consulship, and swore that he had saved his country.
30§	Day before the Calends of January.

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