M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 2.4

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[4] sed cum viderem, ne vobis quidem omnibus¹ etiam tum re probata² si illum, ut erat meritus, morte multassem, fore ut eius socios invidia oppressus persequi non possem, rem huc deduxi ut tum palam pugnare possetis cum hostem aperte videretis. quem quidem ego hostem, Quirites³, quam vehementer foris esse timendum putem, licet hinc intellegatis, quod⁴ etiam illud⁵ moleste fero quod ex urbe parum comitatus exierit. Vtinam ille omnis secum suas copias eduxisset! Tongilium mihi eduxit quem amare in praetexta⁶ coeperat, Publicium et Minucium quorum aes alienum contractum in popina nullum rei publicae motum adferre poterat: reliquit quos viros, quanto aere alieno, quam valentis, quam nobilis!

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.) — 2.4 focus

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But as I saw that, since the matter was not even then proved to all of you, if I had punished him with death, as he had deserved, I should be borne down by unpopularity, and so be unable to follow up his accomplices, I brought the business on to this point that you might be able to combat openly when you saw the enemy without disguise. But how exceedingly I think this enemy to be feared now that he is out of doors, you may see from this—that I am vexed even that be has gone from the city with but a small retinue. I wish he had taken with him all his forces. He has taken with him Tongillus, with whom he had been said to have a criminal intimacy, and Publicius, and Munatius, whose debts contracted in taverns could cause no great disquietude to the republic. He has left behind him others—you all know what men they are, how overwhelmed with debt, how powerful, how noble.

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In Catilinam

1. ne vobis quidem omnibus a: rem quidem omnibus vobis CAV: re quid ne vobis omnibus h: ne vobis quidem omnibus re αβγ: re ne vobis quidem omnibus Lambinus

2. re probata scripst: reprobatam C: rei p. probatam V: om. A in 10 hitt. lac.: probata cett.

3. Quirites om. a: Quirites, hostem h

4. quod pauci dett.: qui mei

5. illud om. αβ x: illud etiam h

6. praetexta i: praetexta (-tata A) calumnia ( fort. ex K cf. I. 26) 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

cum (causal) viderem, seeing: its obj. is

fore ut possem (which is the apod. of

si multassem ) ; § 569 , a (288, f); B. 270,3; G. 248; H. 619, 2 (537,3); H-B. 472, c

ne . . . probata : nearly equivalent to cum ne vos quidem. . . probaretis: implying that if they do not sustain the act, much less will the people at large.

multassem : for fut. perf. of direct; § 589 , 3 (337, 3); B. 319, B; G. 657, 5; H. 646 (527, i).

fore ut , the result would be that, etc.

at . . . possetis , result clause explaining

huc .

videretis : § 593 (342); B. 324, I G. 663, I; H. 652 (529, ii); H.-B. 539; if not dependent on possetis, it would be videbetis.

quem quidem , whom, by the way.

intellegatis : § 565 (331, i); B. 295, 6; G. 553, 2; H. 564, ii, I (499, 3); H-B. 531, 2.

quod . . . exierit : § 592 , 3(341, d); B. 323; G. 539; H. 588, ii (5I6, ii); H-B. 535, 2, N.2.

mihi : eth. dat.; as if, I notice; § 380 (236); B. 188, 2, b; G. 351; 11.432 (389); H.-B. 372.

aes alienum , etc., i.e. petty debts run up in cook-shops and the like; not like the heavy mortgages spoken of afterwards.

reliquit : notice the emphatic position.

quos viros : for a characterization of Catiline's partisans, see sects. 18-23.

M. Tullius Cicero In Catilinam 2.4

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