First Oration against Catiline
Argument
Propositio. CHAP. 1 . Catiline's effrontery in appearing in the Senate when his guilt is known. 2 . Weakness of the consuls in allowing him to live. Contrast with former magistrates in the cases of Gracchus, Saturninus, and Servilius. The situation calls for action: reasons for the delay. 3 , 4 . The consul fully informed: latest acts of the conspirators. Hortatio. 5 . Catiline is exhorted to go out and join his confederates. 6 , 7 . Life in the city should be intolerable to him: he is feared and hated by all good citizens: his native city begs him to begone. 8 . He has offered to go into custody: all good men urgent for his departure: the Senate shows by its silence approval of Cicero's words. 9 , 10 . The consul urges him to depart: but he will go out only as a public enemy. Peroratio. 11 , 12 . The consul may be charged with remissness: but he has been biding his time. 13 . For halfway measures would have been of no avail: Catiline's death would not have freed the state from his confederates. Let Catiline depart. Appeal to Jupiter to save Rome.Commentary on First Oration against Catiline. James Bradstreet Greenough. ed. James Bradstreet Greenough, ed. George Lyman Kittredge. Boston. 1897.
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