13.2
In the affair of Catiline,63-62 B.C. which was very serious, and almost subversive of Rome, some suspicion attached itself to Crassus, and a man publicly named him as one of the conspirators, but nobody believed him.
13.3
Nevertheless, Cicero, in one of his orations,Not extant. plainly inculpated Crassus and Caesar. This oration, it is true, was not published until after both were dead; but in the treatise upon his consulship,Not extant. Cicero says that Crassus came to him by night with a letter which gave details of the affair of Catiline,Cf. Plutarch’s Cicero, xv. and felt that he was at last establishing the fact of a conspiracy.
13.4
And Crassus, accordingly, always hated Cicero for this, but was kept from doing him any open injury by his son. For Publius Crassus, being given to literature and learning, was attached to Cicero, so much so that he put on mourning when Cicero did at the time of his trial, and prevailed upon the other young men to do the same. And finally he persuaded his father to become Cicero’s friend.
14.1
Now when Caesar came back from his province and prepared to seek the consulship, he saw that Pompey and Crassus were once more at odds with each other. He therefore did not wish to make one of them an enemy by asking the aid of the other, nor did he have any hope of success if neither of them helped him.
