M. Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 2.5

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[5] 3 itaque ego illum exercitum prae¹ Gallicanis legionibus et hoc dilectu quem in agro Piceno et Gallico Q. Q uintus Metellus habuit, et his copiis² quae a nobis cotidie comparantur, magno opere contemno, conlectum ex senibus desperatis, ex agresti luxuria, ex rusticis decoctoribus, ex eis qui vadimonia deserere quam illum exercitum maluerunt; quibus ego non modo si aciem exercitus nostri, verum etiam si edictum praetoris ostendero, concident. hos quos video volitare in foro, quos stare ad curiam, quos etiam in senatum venire, qui nitent unguentis, qui fulgent purpura, mallem secum suos milites eduxisset: qui si hic permanent, mementote non tam exercitum illum esse nobis quam hos qui exercitum deseruerunt pertimescendos. atque hoc etiam sunt timendi magis quod quid cogitent³ me scire sentiunt neque tamen permoventur.

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.) — 2.5 focus

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Therefore, with our Gallic legions, and with the levies which Quintus Metellus has raised in the Picenian and Gallic territory, and with these troops which are every day being got ready by us, I thoroughly despise that army composed of desperate old men, of clownish profligates, and uneducated spendthrifts; of those who have preferred to desert their bail rather than that army, and which will fall to pieces if I show them not the battle array of our army, but an edict of the praetor. I wish he had taken with him those soldiers of his, whom I see hovering about the forum, standing about the senate-house, even coming into the senate, who shine with ointment, who glitter in purple; and if they remain here, remember that that army is not so much to be feared by us as these men who have deserted the army. And they are the more to be feared, because they are aware that I know what they are thinking of and yet they are not influenced by it.

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In Catilinam

1. prae pro cod. Lambini: ex cett.

2. et ex his iis ( AV) α h: et prae his coni. Müller

3. cogitant a

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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

For the contents of this and the following section , cf. Cat. 1, sects. 27 , 28 where the supposed complaint against Cicero for not having put Catiline to death and his reply to it are given at greater length.

qualis omnis : acc. plur.

oportebat : § 522 , a (3", c); B. 304, 3, a; G. 254, R.2; H. 583 (511, I, N.1); H.-B. 582, 3, a.

qui . . . accuset , as to accuse: § 535 (320); B. 283, I ; G. 631,2; H. 591, I (503, i); H-B. 521, I.

ista : for gender, see § 296 , a (195, d); cf. B. 250,3; G. 211, R.5; H. 396, 2 (445, 4); H.-B. 326, I.

interfectum esse : § 486 , b, N. (288, d); B. 270, 2, a; G. 280, R.2; H.-B. 582, 3, a, footnote 2; observe the emphatic position.

oportebat : for tense, see note on Cat. 1, p. 100, l. 13 .

hujus imperi : see note on Cat. 1, p. 104, l. 16 .

res publica , the public interest.

quam multos , etc.: the passages in brackets are probably spurious; it will be observed that they merely repeat —the preceding statement in each case.

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