Speeches against Catilina by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 1 illegible passage, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~56,400 words · 268 passages
Cite this work
- APACicero. (n.d.). Speeches against Catilina by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/speeches-against-catilina-by-marcus-tullius-cicero
- MLACicero. Speeches against Catilina by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/speeches-against-catilina-by-marcus-tullius-cicero.
- ChicagoCicero. Speeches against Catilina by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/speeches-against-catilina-by-marcus-tullius-cicero.
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What it is about
The four Catilinarian orations complete.
Context and history
Together they show what the first alone does not: how Cicero brought the Senate to execute Roman citizens without trial, and how that decision eventually got him exiled. The catalogue also holds the first on its own. Text in LATIN: the original, and what should be cited.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
adherents. No, leave the city--for exile, if you will--and take them with you._ =5.= Quae cum ita sint, Catilina, perge quo coepisti, egredere aliquando ex urbe; patent portae: proficiscere. Nimium diu te imperatorem tua illa Manliana castra desiderant. Educ tecum etiam omnes tuos, si minus, quam plurimos; purga urbem. Magno me metu liberabis, dum modo inter me atque te murus intersit. Nobiscum versari iam diutius non potes: non feram, non patiar, non sinam. Magna dis immortalibus habenda est atque 11 huic ipsi Iovi Statori, antiquissimo custodi huius urbis, gratia, quod hanc tam taetram, tam horribilem tamque infestam rei publicae pestem totiens iam effugimus. Non est saepius in uno homine summa salus periclitanda rei publicae. Quam diu mihi, consuli designato, Catilina, insidiatus es, non publico me praesidio, sed privata diligentia defendi. Cum proximis comitiis consularibus me consulem in campo et competitores tuos interficere voluisti, compressi conatus tuos nefarios amicorum praesidio et copiis, nullo tumultu publice concitato; denique, quotienscumque me petisti, per me tibi obstiti, quamquam videbam perniciem meam cum magna calamitate rei publicae esse coniunctam. Nunc iam aperte rem publicam universam petis; templa deorum 12 immortalium, tecta urbis, vitam omnium civium, Italiam denique totam ad exitium ac vastitatem vocas. Quare quoniam id, quod est primum et quod huius imperii disciplinaeque maiorum proprium est, facere nondum audeo, faciam id, quod est ad severitatem lenius et ad communem salutem utilius. Nam si te interfici iussero, residebit in re publica reliqua coniuratorum manus: sin tu, quod te iam dudum hortor, exieris, exhaurietur ex urbe tuorum comitum magna et perniciosa sentina rei publicae. Quid est, Catilina?…
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