M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 2.13

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[13] hic ego vehemens ille consul qui verbo civis in exsilium eicio quaesivi a Catilina in¹ nocturno conventu ad M. M arcum Laecam fuisset necne. cum ille homo audacissimus conscientia convictus primo reticuisset, patefeci cetera: quid ea nocte egisset, ubi fuisset², quid in proximam³ constituisset, quem ad modum esset ei ratio totius belli descripta edocui. cum haesitaret, cum teneretur, quaesivi quid dubitaret proficisci eo quo iam pridem pararet, cum arma, cum securis, cum fascis, cum tubas, cum signa militaria, cum aquilam illam argenteam cui ille etiam sacrarium⁴ domi suae fecerat scirem esse praemissam.

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.) — 2.13 focus

[13]
On this I, that violent consul, who drive citizens into exile by a word, asked of Catiline whether he had been at the nocturnal meeting at Marcus Lecca's, or not; when that most audacious man, convicted by his own conscience, was at first silent. I related all the other circumstances; I described what he had done that night, where he had been, what he had arranged for the next night, how the plan of the whole war had been laid down by him. When he hesitated, when he was convicted, I asked why he hesitated to go whither he had been long been preparing to go; when I knew that arms, that the axes, the fasces, and trumpets, and military standards, and that silver eagle to which he had made a shrine in his own house, had been sent on?

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In Catilinam

1. in an α h et Schol. Gron.: an in o: om. Priscian. K. iii. 249, 275

2. ubi fuisset om. x et Priscian. K. iii. 250

3. in proxima αβ x: proxima Priscian.

4. sacrarium x: scelerum post sacr. add. αhot, ante sacr. αβ

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

quaesivi , etc.: see Cat. 1, sect. 9 .

necne : § 335 ,d(211,d); B. 162,4; G.459; H.380, 1 (353, N.1); H.-B. 234, a.

ei : dat. of agent; § 375 (232, a); B. 189, 2; G. 354; H. 431, 2 (388, I); H-B. 373, 2.

teneretur , was caught

pararet : for pluperf. (see note on Cat. 1, p. 100, l. 13 ).

securis ,

fascis : the use of these signified that Catiline intended to assume the authority and imperium of consul (see Fig. 25, p.290).

aquilam : see Cat. 1, p. 109, l. 6 , and note.

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 2.13

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