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Cicero, Fam, I, 9, 15 does not refer to a “memorial building” of Catiline’s conspiracy, which would have been erected in 63 B. C. according to the wishes of the senate, but to Catulus’s portico, which Cicero had been ordered to restore in 63, by means of a consular locatio. These public works, just as the portico pulled down by Clodius’s henchmen in 58 B.C. and its restoration, once more prove that at the end of the Republic, optimates and populares ideological contests made use of monumenta (Marius’s trophies, temple of Jupiter Capitolinus), heavy with political meanings since the civil war between Marius and Sulla.