M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 1.18

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[18] quae tecum, Catilina, sic agit¹ et quodam modo tacita loquitur: nullum iam aliquot annis facinus exstitit² nisi per te, nullum flagitium sine te; tibi uni multorum civium neces, tibi vexatio direptioque sociorum impunita fuit ac libera; tu non solum ad neglegendas leges et quaestiones verum etiam ad evertendas³ perfringendasque valuisti. superiora illa, quamquam ferenda non fuerunt, tamen ut potui tuli; nunc vero me totam esse in metu propter unum te, quicquid increpuerit, Catilinam timeri, nullum videri contra me consilium iniri posse quod a tuo scelere abhorreat, non est ferendum. quam ob rem discede atque hunc mihi timorem eripe; si est verus, ne opprimar, sin falsus, ut tandem aliquando timere desinam.

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.)

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Against L. Catiline Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 1.18 focus

[18]
And she, O Catiline, thus pleads with you, and after a manner silently speaks to you:—There has now for many years been no crime committed but by you; no atrocity has taken place without you; you alone unpunished and unquestioned have murdered the citizens, have harassed and plundered the allies; you alone have had power not only to neglect all laws and investigations, but to overthrow and break through them. Your former actions, though they ought not to have been borne, yet I did bear as well as I could; but now that I should be wholly occupied with fear of you alone, that at every sound I should dread Catiline, that no design should seem possible to be entertained against me which does not proceed from your wickedness, this is no longer endurable. Depart, then, and deliver me from this fear; that, if it be a just one, I may not be destroyed; if an imaginary one, that at least I may at last cease to fear.

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In Catilinam

1. agit ait ahlou

2. existit CAV

3. evertendas ou: evincendas αβ x: vincendas α t: devincendas h

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

quae (i.e. patria)... agit, she thus pleads with you .

annis : § 424 , b (256,b); B. 231,1; G. 393, R.2; H. 417, I and 2 (379, I); H.-B. 440.

sociorum , i.e. the allied cities of the province of Africa, which Catiline had governed as pro-praetor, B.C. 67 .

neglegandas implies only evasion;

evertendas , violence.

leges et quaestiones , i.e. in his lawless career both as praetor in Rome and as pro-praetor in Africa.

superiora illa , those former crimes of yours.

me . . . esse , etc.: this and the two following infin. clauses (Catilinam

timeri and

nullum videri . . . consilium ) are subjects of

est ferendum ;

posse depends on

videri .

quicquid increpuerit , subj. of integral part; § 593 (342); B. 324, I; G. 663, I; H. 652 (529, ii); H-B. 539.

abhorreat (subj. of characteristic), is inconsistent with.

hunc . . . eripe , rescue me from, etc. (lit. snatch it from me); § 381 (229); B. 188, 2, d; G. 345, R.1; H. 429, 2 (386, 2); 14.-B. 371.

ne opprimar : § 515 , a (306, a); B. 302,4; G. 595; 11.580 (508, 4); H.-B. 582, I.

aliquando , some time or other (implying impatience).

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 1.18

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