Cataline and the Conquest of Rome

Cataline was actually a more upstanding citizen in, in respectable society than Salas and Cicero liked to portray him as being. But he kind of made a career of gathering disreputable people around him. He's the only one who will sort of take them up as clients, as, as followers. And he has uses for people like that. So, Cataline, he's in the, in the lead up to this conspiracy, he's building up his powerbase,. Then, in 64 BC, he decides at last to make his move.