M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 2.2

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[2] But that he has not taken with him his sword red with blood as he intruded—that he has left us alive,—that we wrested the weapon from his hands,—that he has left the citizens safe and the city standing, what great and overwhelming grief must you think that this is to him. Now he lies prostrate, O Romans, and feels himself stricken down and abject, and often casts back his eyes towards this city, which he mourns over as snatched from his jaws, but which seems to me to rejoice at having vomited forth such a pest, and cast it out of doors.

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.) — 2.2 focus

[2] quod vero non cruentum mucronem, ut voluit, extulit, quod vivis nobis egressus est, quod ei ferrum e manibus extorsimus, quod incolumis civis, quod stantem urbem reliquit, quanto tandem illum maerore esse adflictum et profligatum putatis? iacet ille nunc prostratus, Quirites¹, et se perculsum atque abiectum esse sentit et retorquet oculos profecto saepe ad hanc urbem quam e suis faucibus ereptam esse luget: quae quidem mihi laetari² videtur, quod tantam pestem evomuerit forasque proiecerit.

Commentary

Commentary on Second 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

quod . . . extulit etc. : § 572 , b (333, b); B. 331, V, a; G. 542; H. 588, i (540, iv, N.); H.-B. 594, c.

cruentum (pred.), reeking with blood.

vivis nobis (abl. abs.), leaving us alive.

civis : acc. plur.

jacet , etc., lies prostrate, etc.

retorquet oculos begins the figure of a wild beast, which is continued in

faucibus .

profecto , no doubt.

quae quidem , which really.

quod . . . projecerit : see note on

quod extulit , 1.9, above; for mood, see § 592 ,3 (341, d); B. 323; G. 541; H. 588, ii (516, ii); H.-B. 535, 2, a. 2

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 2.2

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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