[128] _Met_ is a suffix which may be appended to all the cases of
_suus_, and answers to our 'own.' It is usually followed by _ipse_.
See Zumpt, S 139, note.
[129] _Stuprum_ is the name for every unchaste connexion with unmarried
as well as with married women; but _adulterium_ is the illicit
intercourse with married women.
[130] 'To behave more ferociously;' for _agere_ and _agitare_, even
without an accusative, signify 'to behave,' 'conduct one's self,'
'lead a life.'
[131] _Sublato auctore_, 'without mentioning the one of whom she had
learned it.'
[132] 'The nobility was boiling with envy;' a figurative expression,
taken from the boiling of water over the fire, which is frequently
used to describe violent passions. So also _incendi, ardere,
flagrare cupiditate_.
[133] A _homo novus_ was at Rome the name for any person, none of
whose ancestors had been invested with a curule office; that is,
with the consulship, praetorship, quaestorship, or curule aedileship.
[134] _Post fuere_; that is, _postposita sunt_, 'were put on one side.'

24. Igitur comitiis habitis consules declarantur M. Tullius et
G. Antonius, quod factum primo populares conjurationis concusserat.[135]
Neque tamen Catilinae furor minuebatur, sed in dies plura agitare, arma
per Italiam locis opportunis parare, pecuniam sua aut amicorum fide
sumptam mutuam Faesulas[136] ad Manlium quendam portare,[137] qui postea
princeps fuit belli faciundi. Ea tempestate plurimos cujusque generis
homines adscivisse sibi dicitur, mulieres etiam aliquot, quae primo
ingentes sumptus[138] stupro corporis toleraverant, post ubi aetas
tantummodo quaestui neque luxuriae modum fecerat, aes alienum grande
conflaverant. Per eas se Catilina credebat posse servitia urbana