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answered Catiline , `` but thou knowest thine opportunity , and profitest by it ! so let it pass ! Now as for thee , seeing thou dost love lying , thou shalt have thy part . Thou shalt swear that the night before that same morning , at a short time past midnight , thou wert returning by the Wicked street , from the house of Autronius upon the Quirinal , whither I sent thee to bid him to dinner the next day -- he shall confirm the tale -- when thou didst hear a cry of murder from the Plebeian graveyard on the Esquiline ; and hurrying to the spot , didst see Arvina , with his freedman Thrasea bearing a torch , conceal a fresh bleeding body in a broken grave ; and , hidden by the stem of a great tree thyself , didst hear him say , as he left the ground , ' That dog will tell no tales ! ' Thou must swear , likewise , that thou didst tell me the whole affair the next morning , and that I bade thee wait for farther proof ere speaking of the matter . And again , that we visited the spot where thou saw ' st the deed , and found the grass trampled and bloody , but could not find the body . Canst thou do this , thinkest thou ? ''