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The man has been condemned who slew Catiline when he was bearing his hostile standards against his country. What reason is there why he who drove Catiline from the city should be exempt from fear? That man is demanded for punishment who discovered the proofs of the common destruction of all which was then being planned. Why should he feel safe who took care to produce and divulge those proofs? The partners of his counsels, his ministers and comrades are harassed. What are the leaders, and chiefs, and principal men of his party to expect? We should then see whether at that time all good men were my guides or my companions in preserving the common safety of
frBob1
He preferred saying they were strangled. These fragments are from a Vatican MS. first inserted in the text by Nobbe.
frBob2
What did my friend Caetra wish?
frBob3
And what did Decianus?
frBob4
And I wish that my enemies, and those of all good men, would rather attack me; I wish it really was mine. The senate to a great extent
frBob5
O ye immortal gods! that Lentulus