Page "Roman Forum" Paragraph 25

In 78 BC, the immense Tabularium ( Records Hall ) was built at the Capitoline Hill end of the Forum by order of the consuls for that year, M. Aemilius Lepidus and Q. Lutatius Catulus.

In 63 BC, Cicero delivered his famous speech denouncing the companions of the conspirator Catiline at the Forum ( in the Temple of Concord, whose spacious hall was sometimes used as a meeting place by the Senators ).

After the verdict, they were led to their deaths at the Tullianum, the nearby dungeon which was the only known state prison of the ancient Romans.