M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 1.13

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[13] num dubitas id me imperante facere quod iam tua sponte faciebas? exire ex urbe iubet consul hostem. interrogas me, num in exsilium? non iubeo, sed, si me consulis, suadeo. quid est enim, Catilina, quod te iam in hac urbe delectare possit? in qua nemo est extra istam coniurationem perditorum hominum qui te non metuat, nemo qui non oderit¹. quae nota domesticae turpitudinis non inusta vitae tuae est? quod privatarum rerum dedecus non haeret in fama²? quae libido ab oculis, quod facinus a manibus umquam tuis, quod flagitium a toto corpore afuit³? cui tu adulescentulo quem corruptelarum inlecebris inretisses non aut ad audaciam ferrum aut ad libidinem facem praetulisti?

In Catilinam. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1908.

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

Translations (1)

Against L. Catiline Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 1.13 focus

[13] What is the matter, Catiline? Do you hesitate to do that which I order you which you were already doing of your own accord? The consul orders an enemy to depart from the city. Do you ask me, Are you to go into banishment? I do not order it; but, if you consult me, I advise it. 6
For what is there, O Catiline, that can now afford you any pleasure in this city? for there is no one in it, except that band of profligate conspirators of yours, who does not fear you,—no one who does not hate you. What brand of domestic baseness is not stamped upon your life? What disgraceful circumstance is wanting to your infamy in your private affairs? From what licentiousness have your eyes, from what atrocity have your hands, from what iniquity has your whole body ever abstained? Is there one youth, when you have once entangled him in the temptations of your corruption, to whom you have not held out a sword for audacious crime, or a torch for licentious wickedness?

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In Catilinam

1. non oderit te ante non add. at, post non h

2. haeret in fama Ant. Augustinus: haeret (inhaeret h) infamiae (-ia a) codd.: inhaeret in fama Madvig

3. afuit V: abfuit cett.

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

faciebas , were on the point of doing: § 471 , c (277, c); B. 260, 3; G. 233; H. 534, 2 (469, I); H-B. 484.

hostem , a public enemy, whom the consul would have the right to expel from the city.

non jubeo : Cicero avoids the appearance of ordering a citizen to go into exile, since that was something which the consul had no right to do.

jam , longer.

metuat : cf. note on cogitent, p. 103, l. 9 .

privatarum rerum , in private life, i.e. intercourse with others out of the family (distinguished from domesticae, above).

quem . . . inretisses , i.e. after entangling, etc. (subj. of characteristic).

ferrum . . . facem , i.e. arm him for acts of violence, or inflame him to deeds of lust.

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 1.13

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