M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 2.12

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[12] 6 at etiam sunt qui dicant, Quirites¹, a me eiectum esse Catilinam². quod ego si verbo adsequi possem, istos ipsos eicerem qui haec loquuntur. homo enim videlicet timidus aut etiam permodestus vocem consulis ferre non potuit; simul atque ire in exsilium iussus est, paruit³. quin⁴ hesterno die, cum domi meae paene interfectus essem, senatum in aedem Iovis Statoris convocavi⁵, rem omnem ad patres conscriptos detuli. quo cum Catilina venisset, quis eum senator appellavit, quis salutavit, quis denique ita aspexit ut perditum civem ac non potius ut importunissimum hostem? quin etiam principes eius ordinis partem illam subselliorum ad quam ille accesserat nudam atque inanem reliquerunt.

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.) — 2.12 focus

[12]
But there are men, O Romans, who say that Catiline has been driven by me into banishment. But if I could do so by a word, I would drive out those also who say so. Forsooth, that timid, that excessively bashful man could not bear the voice of the consul; as soon as he was ordered to go into banishment, he obeyed, he was quiet. Yesterday, when I had been all but murdered at my own house, I convoked the senate in the temple of Jupiter Stator; I related the whole affair to the conscript fathers; and when Catiline came thither, what senator addressed him? who saluted him? who looked upon him not so much even as an abandoned citizen, as an implacable enemy? Nay the chiefs of that body left that part of the benches to which he came naked and empty.

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In Catilinam

1. Quirites om. αh

2. eiectum esse Catilinam scripsi: in exsilium ante esse add. α, post Catilinam h, ante eiectum cett.

3. paruit, ivit graevius

4. quin scripsi: qui AVo2: quid ut ah: qui (quod o1) ut cett.: fort. Quirites

5. convocavi α ho: vocavi cett.

Commentary

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

video , i.e. I know perfectly well. -

cui sit , etc.: cf. Cat. 1, sect. 9 .

superioris noctis , i.e. three nights ago.

ne , surely: an affirmative particle sometimes wrongly spelled nae. 116.5

ut . . . videretis : clause of result explaining

quod .

nisi vero : ironical (as usual), introducing a reductio ad absurdunt. (The

si only doubles that in nisi.)

non. . . jam , no longer.

Aurelia_ via_ : see Cat. 1, sect. 24 .

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 2.12

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