M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 1.25

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[25] 10 ibis tandem aliquando quo te iam pridem tua ista¹ cupiditas effrenata ac furiosa rapiebat; neque enim tibi haec res adfert dolorem, sed quandam incredibilem voluptatem. ad hanc te amentiam natura peperit, voluntas exercuit, fortuna servavit. numquam tu non modo otium sed ne bellum quidem nisi nefarium concupisti. nactus es ex perditis atque ab omni non modo fortuna verum etiam spe derelictis conflatam improborum manum.

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.) — 1.25 focus

[25]
You will go at last where your unbridled and mad desire has been long hurrying you. And this causes you no grief; but an incredible pleasure. Nature has formed you, desire has trained you, fortune has preserved you for this insanity. Not only did you never desire quiet, but you never even desired any war but a criminal one; you have collected a baud of profligates and worthless men, abandoned not only by all fortune but even by hope.

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In Catilinam

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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

omnia . . . comperi : Cicero's contemporaries made sport of him for using this phrase so often in the case of the conspirators.

salutatum : supine; § 509 (302); B. 340, I ; G. 435; H. 633 (546); H.-B. 618. All prominent citizens were accustomed to hold a kind of morning reception (cf. "the king's levee") to which their friends and dependents came to bid them good morning and to escort them to the Forum.

cum . . . venissent : best translated by when, etc.

id temporis , at that very time: §§ 346 , a, 3, 397, a (216, a, 3, 240, b); B. 201, 2, 185, 2; G. 336, N.2, 369; H. 416, 2, 442 (378, 2, 397, 3); H.-B. 346, 388, b.

praedixeram : Cicero had thus put on record, as it were, the fact that he was acquainted with the details of the Conspiracy. 103.27

desiderant , hove been wanting: § 466 (276, a); B. 259, 4; G. 230; H. 532, 2 (467, 2); H-B. 485.

si minus (sc. omnes), if not

murus , i.e. city wall (cf. parietibus , walls of a house, sect. 6 ).

intersit : § 528 (314); B. 310, ii; G. 573; H. 587 (513, i); H-B. 529.

non feram , etc.: the same idea is repeated for emphasis, but, for variety, different words are used.

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 1.25

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