M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 1.22

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[22] 9 quamquam quid loquor? te ut ulla res frangat, tu ut umquam te corrigas, tu ut ullam fugam meditere, tu ut ullum¹ exsilium cogites? Vtinam tibi istam mentem di immortales duint!² tametsi³ video, si mea voce perterritus ire in exsilium animum induxeris, quanta tempestas invidiae nobis, si minus in praesens tempus recenti memoria scelerum tuorum, at in posteritatem impendeat. sed est tanti, dum modo tua ista⁴ sit privata calamitas et a rei publicae periculis seiungatur. sed tu ut vitiis tuis commoveare, ut legum poenas pertimescas, ut temporibus rei publicae cedas non est postulandum. neque enim is es, Catilina, ut te⁵ aut pudor⁶ a turpitudine aut metus a periculo aut ratio a furore revocarit⁷.

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.) — 1.22 focus

[22]
And yet, why am I speaking? that anything may change your purpose? that you may ever amend your life? that you may meditate flight or think of voluntary banishment? I wish the gods may give you such a mind; though I see, if alarmed at my words you bring your mind to go into banishment, what a storm of unpopularity hangs over me, if not at present, while the memory of your wickedness is fresh, at all events hereafter. But it is worthwhile to incur that, as long as that is but a private misfortune of my own, and is unconnected with the dangers of the republic. But we cannot expect that you should be concerned at your own vices, that you should fear the penalties of the laws, or that you should yield to the necessities of the republic, for you are not, O Catiline, one whom either shame can recall from infamy, or fear from danger, or reason from madness.

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In Catilinam

1. ullum om. l αγ

2. duint C: duent a: dent h: donent AV: donarent cett.

3. tametsi α ho2: etsi cett.

4. ista tua h αβo

5. is es... ut te sis (scis a)... si te α ( contra Quintil. ix. 3. 62)

6. pudor umquam Quintil.

7. revocaverit Vhou et Quintil.

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

gentium : § 346 , a, 4(216, a, 4); B. 201, 2; G. 372, N.3; H. 443 (397, 4); H.-B. 346.

quam rem republicam , what sort of state?

hic , hic , here, right here.

patres [et]

conscripti : the formal designation of the Senators; patres were the patrician members of the Senate, conscripti were the plebeians enrolled in that originally patrician body. The conjunction is regularly omitted (as often in such combinations). Observe that the stock English translation conscript fathers is inexact.

qui : the antecedent is the understood subject of

sunt .

atque adeo , and in fact

cogitent : § 535 , a (320, a); B. 283, 2; G. 631, 2; H. 591, 1 (503, 1); H-B. 521, I.

oportebat : see sect. 2 and note.

voce volnero : the alliteration is intentional and may easily be imitated in English, — wound with a word.

igitur (resumptive), then (i.e. as I said ).

quemque , each (of the conspirators).

placeret , indir. quest.

relinqueres , educeres, delib. subj. in an indir. quest.: § 575 , b (334, b); B. 302; G. 265; H. 559, 4 (484, v); H.-B. 503.

morae : partitive gen.

viverem : subj. in subord. clause in indir. disc.

equites : these were C. Cornelius and L. Vargunteius.

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