M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 2.27

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[27]
Now once more I wish those who have remained in the city, and who, contrary to the safety of the city and of all of you, have been left in the city by Catiline, although they are enemies, yet because they were born citizens, to be warned again and again by me. If my lenity has appeared to any one too remiss, it has been only waiting that that might break out which was lying hid. As to the future, I cannot now forget that this is my country, that I am the consul of these citizens; that I must either live with them, or die for them. There is no guard at the gate, no one plotting against their path; if any one wishes to go, he can provide for himself; but if any one stirs in the city, and if I detect not only any action, but any attempt or design against the country, he shall feel that there are in this city vigilant consuls, eminent magistrates, a brave senate, arms, and prisons; which our ancestors appointed as the avengers of nefarious and convicted crimes.

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.) — 2.27 focus

[27] nunc illos qui in urbe remanserunt atque adeo qui contra urbis salutem omniumque vestrum in urbe a Catilina relicti sunt, quamquam sunt hostes, tamen, quia nati¹ sunt cives, monitos² etiam atque etiam volo. mea lenitas adhuc si cui solutior visa est, hoc exspectavit³ ut id quod latebat erumperet. quod reliquum est, iam non possum oblivisci meam hanc esse patriam, me horum esse consulem, mihi aut cum his vivendum aut pro his esse moriendum. nullus est portis⁴ custos, nullus insidiator viae: si qui exire volunt, conivere⁵ possum; qui vero se in urbe commoverit cuius ego non modo factum sed vel⁶ inceptum ullum conatumve contra patriam deprehendero, sentiet in hac urbe esse consules vigilantis⁷, esse egregios magistratus, esse fortem senatum, esse arma, esse carcerem quem vindicem nefariorum ac manifestorum scelerum maiores nostri esse voluerunt.

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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

monitos . . . volo : 497, c, N. (292, d, N.); G. 537; H.-B. 605, 3.

solutior : for compar., see § 291 , a (93, a); B. 240, I G. 297; H. 498 (444, I); H.-B. 241, 2.

quod , etc., as for the rest, i.e. what remains to be done.

horum and

his relate to the citizens by whom he is surrounded, and imply a gesture.

cujus : referring, like qui, to the subject of sentiet. 13

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 2.27

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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