Marci Tullii Ciceronis oratio prima in Lucium Catilinam, with tr. by A.C. Maybury

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Pagina 9 - Clodius tribune, who commenced office by bringing in a bill to the effect that any magistrate who had put a Roman citizen to death without trial should be banished from Italy, thus reaffirming the principle contended for in the case of Rabirius.
Pagina 11 - ... exercises. There never was such a monster on earth, compounded of passions so contrary and opposite. Who was ever more agreeable at one time to the best citizens .' who more intimate at another with the worst ? who a man of better principles ? who a fouler enemy to this city .' who more intemperate in pleasure ? who more patient in labour ? who more rapacious in plundering ? who more profuse in squandering ? He had a wonderful faculty of engaging men to his friendship, and obliging them by his...
Pagina 42 - Quod si ea mihi maxime impenderet, tamen hoc animo semper fui, ut invidiam virtute partam gloriam, non invidiam putarem.
Pagina 11 - TTis house was furnished with a variety of temptations to lust and lewdness, yet with several incitements also to industry and labour ; it was a scene of vicious pleasures, yet a school of martial exercises. There never was such a monster on earth, compounded of passions so contrary and opposite. Who was ever more agreeable at one time to the best citizens ? Who more intimate at another with the worst ? Who a man of better...
Pagina 11 - ... squandering? He had a wonderful faculty of engaging men to his friendship and obliging them by his observance ; sharing with them in common whatever he was master of; serving them with his money, his interest, his pains, and, when there was occasion, by the most daring acts of villany, moulding his nature to his purposes, and bending it every way to his will. With the morose, he could live severely ; with the free, gayly ; with the old, gravely ; with the young, cheerfully ; with the enterprising,...
Pagina 26 - Romae relinqueres, quos tecum educeres, discripsisti urbis partes ad incendia, confirmasti te ipsum iam esse exiturum, dixisti paulum tibi esse etiam nunc morae quod ego viverem. Reperti sunt duo equites Romani, qui te ista cura liberarent et sese ilia ipsa nocte paulo ante lucem me in meo lecto interfecturos esse pollicerentur.
Pagina 11 - With the morose, he could live severely ; with the free, gayly ; with the old, gravely ; with the young, cheerfully ; with the enterprising, audaciously ; with the vicious, luxuriously. By a temper so various and pliable, he gathered about him the profligate and the rash from all countries ; yet held attached to him, at the same time, many brave and worthy men, by the specious show of a pretended virtue.
Pagina 16 - QUOUSQUE tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra ? quamdiu etiam furor iste tuus [nos] eludet ? quem ad finem sese effrenata...
Pagina 11 - ... who more rapacious in plundering? who more profuse in squandering? He had a wonderful faculty of engaging men to his friendship, and obliging them by his observance; sharing with them in common whatever he was master of; serving them with his money, his interest, his pains, and, when there was occasion, by the most daring acts of villany, moulding his nature to his purposes, and bending it every way to his will. With the morose, he could live severely; with the free, gaily; with the old, gravely;...
Pagina 41 - O conscript fathers, any in the least reasonable complaint from myself, listen, I beseech you, carefully to what I say, and lay it up in your inmost hearts and minds. In truth, if my country, which is far dearer to me than my life — if all Italy — if the whole republic were to address me, " Marcus Tullius, what are you doing ? will you permit that man to depart whom you have ascertained to be an enemy ? whom you see ready to become the general of the war ? whom you know to be expected in the...

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