Third Oration Against Catiline
Argument
Exordium. CHAP. 1 . The citizens are congratulated on their deliverance. Narratio. 2 , 3 . Story of the arrest: the conspirators' plans were watched: arrest of certain leaders at the Mulvian Bridge. 4 . The conspirators before the Senate: testimony of Volturcius and the Gauls. 5 . The letters produced. Confession of Cethegus, Lentulus, and Gabinius. 6 . The Senate decrees that the traitors be kept in custody, and that a general thanksgiving be held. 7 . Now all is safe: Catiline alone was to be feared, and that only while in the city. Character of Catiline. 8 , 9 . The divine aid manifest in sundry omens: Jupiter watches over the city. Peroratio . 10 . Exhortation to keep the thanksgiving: this bloodless victory compared with others more costly. 11 . Cicero claims no reward but a grateful remembrance. 12 . But he is less fortunate than victors in foreign war, since the conquered are still citizens. He relies on the devotion of his countrymen, and has no fear for the future. The assembly dismissed.Commentary on Third Oration against Catiline. James Bradstreet Greenough. ed. James Bradstreet Greenough, ed. George Lyman Kittredge. Boston. 1897.
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