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I'm John Maxwell with Professor Josiah Osgood, a classicist. And I enjoy the fact that classicist stories are everything you want in a Hollywood thriller plus. It happened. It's the nature of history. You can't make it up. I spent many years as a novelist. And when you're writing fiction, you have to be believable.

When you're writing history, you don't have to.

It's a freedom. So we're about to enter into the biggest mistake I think Cicero ever made.

There are men who are left in Rome who are in league with Catalina who promised to bring in

allies if Cataline marches on Rome and takes over.

They were planning to be reformer dictators.

Five of the men were arrested by Cicero.

And professor, help me understand why Cicero makes this mistake because he's so careful

to this point.

What is the mistake and why do we think he makes it?

Yeah, well, as you say, Cicero felt vindicated by this point because he'd been warning

about Caterline a long time and cistero was actually

right you know catalin went off and joined this this military upright rising and there's been a lot of

doubts cissero the new man can you trust him you know his enemies whispered things so he feels

confident now and it's exactly like a

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