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hiemi navigationem subjiciendam non existimabat. Ipse idoneam tempestatem nactus paullo post mediam noctem naves solvit, quae omnes incolumes ad continentem pervenerunt; sed ex iis onerariae duae eosdem, quos relíquae, portus ca5 pere non potuerunt, et paullo 'infra delatae sunt.

XXXVII. 'Quibus ex navibus quum essent expositi milites circiter trecenti, atque in castra contenderent, Morini, quos Caesar in Britanniam proficiscens pacātos reliquerat, spe praedae adducti primo non ita magno suorum numero circum10 steterunt, ac, si sese interfici nollent, arma ponere jusserunt. Quum illi, orbe facto, sese defenderent, celeriter ad clamorem hominum circiter milia sex convenerunt. Qua re nunciata, Caesar omnem ex castris equitatum suis auxilio misit. Intěrim nostri milites impetum hostium sustinuerunt atque amplius 15 horis quattuor fortissime pugnaverunt, et paucis vulneribus acceptis, complures ex his occiderunt. Postea vero quam equitatus noster in conspectum venit, hostes, abjectis armis, terga verterunt, magnusque eorum numerus est occisus.

XXXVIII. Caesar postero die Titum Labienum legātum 20 cum his legionibus, quas ex Britannia reduxerat, in Morinos, qui rebellionem fecerant, misit. Qui quum propter siccitates paludum, 'quo se reciperent, non haberent, quo perfugio 'superiore anno fuerant usi, omnes fere in potestatem Labiēni pervenerunt. At Q. Titurius et L. Cotta legāti, qui in Menapio25 rum fines legiones duxerant, omnibus eorum agris vastatis, frumentis succisis, aedificiis incensis, quod Menapii se omnes in densissimas silvas abdiderant, se ad Caesarem receperunt. Caesar in Belgis omnium legionum hiberna constituit. Eo duae omnino civitates ex Britannia obsides miserunt: relí30 quae neglexerunt. His rebus gestis, ex literis Caesaris dierum viginti supplicatio a senātu decreta est.

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C. SALLUSTII CRISPI

CATILINA.

ARGUMENT.

THE INTRODUCTION, 1-4. The character of Catiline, 5. Virtues of the ancient Romans, 6-9. Degeneracy of their posterity, 10-13. Catiline's associates and supporters, and the arts by which he collected them, 14. His crimes and wretchedness, 15. His tuition of his accomplices, and resolution to subvert the government, 16. His convocation of the conspirators, and their names, 17. His concern in a former conspiracy, 18, 19. Speech to the conspirators, 20. His promises to them, 21. His supposed ceremony to unite them, 22. His designs discovered by Fulvia, 23. His alarm on the election of Cicero to the consulship, and his design in engag ing women in his cause, 24. His accomplice Sempronia characterized, 25. His ambition for the consulship, his plot to assassinate Cicero, and his disappointment of both, 26. His mission of Manlius into Etruria, and his second convention of the conspirators, 27. His second attempt to kill Cicero his directions to Manlius well observed, 28. His machinations induce the senate to confer extraordinary power on the consuls, 29. His proceedings are opposed by various precautions, 30. His effrontery in the senate, 31. He sets out for Etruria, 32. His accomplice Manlius sends a deputation to Marcius, 33. His representations to various respectable characters, 34. His letter to Catulus, 35. His arrival at Manlius's camp: he is declared an enemy by the senate: his adherents continue faithful and resolute, 36. The discontent and disaffection of the populace in Rome, 37. The old contentions between the patricians and plebeians, 38. The effect which a victory of Catiline would have produced, 39. The Allobroges are solicited to engage in the conspiracy, 40. They discover it to Cicero, 41. The incaution of Catiline's accomplices in Gaul and Italy, 42. The plan of his adherents at Rome, 43. The Allobroges succeed in obtaining proofs of the conspirators' guilt, 44. The Allobroges and Volturcius are arrested by the contrivance of Cicero, 45. The principal conspirators at Rome are brought before the senate, 46. The evidence against them, and their consignment to custody, 47. The alteration in the minds of the populace, and

the suspicions entertained against Crassus, 48. The attempts of Catulus and Piso to criminate Caesar, 49. The plans of Lentulus and Cethegus for their rescue, and the deliberations of the senate, 50. The speech of Caesar on the mode of punishing the conspirators, 51. The speech of Cato on the same subject, 52. The condemnation of the prisoners: the causes of Roman greatness, 53. Parallel between Caesar and Cato, 54. The execution of the criminals, 55. Catiline's warlike preparations in Etruria, 56. He is compelled by Metellus and Antonius to hazard an action, 57. His exhortation to his men, 58. His arrangements, and those of his opponents, for a battle, 59. His bravery, defeat, and death, 60, 61.

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primum fuit,) diversi, pars ingenium, alii corpus exercebant: etiamtum vita hominum sine cupiditate 'agitabatur; sua cuiqued satis placebant. Postea vero quam in Asia Cyrus, in Graecia Lacedaemonii et Athenienses coepere urbes atque nationes subigere, 'lubidinem dominandi caussam 5 belli habere, maxumam gloriam in maxumo imperio putare, tum demum periculo atque negotiis compertum est in bello plurimum ingenium posse. Quodsi' regum atque imperatorum animi virtus in pace ita ut in bello valeret, aequabilius atque constantius sese res humanae haberent, neque aliud3 10 alio ferri, neque mutari ac misceri omnia cerneres. Nam imperium facile iis "artibus retinetur, quibus initio partum est. Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentiam et aequitate lubido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optumum quem- 15 que" a minus bono transfertur. 14Quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant, virtuti omnia parent. Sed multi mortales, dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam 16sicuti peregrinantes transiere"; quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri fuit. Eorum ego vitam mor- 20 temque "juxta aestimo, quoniam de utraque siletur. 18 Verum enim vero 19is demum mihi vivere atque frui anima videtur, qui aliquo negotio' intentus praeclari facinoris aut artis bonae famam quaerit. Sed in magna copia "rerum aliud alii natura iter ostendit.

III. Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicae"; etiam bene dicere 1haud absurdum est: vel pace vel bello clarum fieri

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IV. Igitur ubi animus ex multis miseriis atque periculis requievit, et mihi reliquam aetatem a republica procul ha20 bendam decrevi, non fuit consilium 'socordia atque desidia "bonum otium conterere, neque vero agrum colendod aut venando, servilibus officiis, intentum aetatem agere, sed a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat, *eodem regressus, statui res gestas populi Romani "carptim, ut quae25 que memoria" digna videbantur, perscribere; eo magis, quod mihi a spe, metu, partibus reipublicae animus liber erat.

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