M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 1.25

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

In Catilinam. M. Tullius Cicero. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). London. 1856.

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Against L. Catiline (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.)

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In L. Catilinam Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) — 1.25 focus

Commentary

Commentary on First Oration against Catiline (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

rapiebat : § 471 , b (277, b); B. 260, 4; H-B. 485; the imperf. is used instead of the pres. because the action is conceived of as ceasing at the moment when Cicero discovered the plot.

haec res , i.e. leaving the city as an enemy and taking up arms.

non modo , to say nothing of: § 327 , I (209, a, I); B. 347, 2; G. 445; H. 656, 2 (553, 2); H.-B. 298, 2, a.

atque connects

perditis and

derelictis ;

ab connects

fortuna and

spe with

derelictis .

conflatam , run together (like molten metal).