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6.8.

sese persuasuros [esse] (notice that in the fut. infin., used in indir. disc., esse is usually omitted (cf. conciliaturum, 3 26); in dir. disc. we should have persuadebimus), they thought they should persuade; its object is Allobrogibus (cf. Rauracis, etc., 5 1). — bono animo = well disposed§ 415 (251); B. 224. 1; G. 400; H. 473. 2 (419. ii); H-B. 443): five years before, their envoys in Rome had intrigued with Catiline's agents, whom they at length betrayed (see Cicero, Cat. iii. ch. 9).


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