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1003 51 | him whom so frightful and monstrous a reality has not provoked!
1004 | moreover
1005 | mostly
1006 16 | greater enormities. If a motive for crime did not readily
1007 47 | had in view, and from what motives he had acted, at first began
1008 31 | supplicating hands to heaven, mourned over their infants, made
1009 58 | your enemies a bloody and mournful victory.” ~
1010 58 | neither glory nor danger can move, exhortation is bestowed
1011 53 | riches, and a few over a multitude. And even in later time,
1012 54 | eminent by generosity and munificence; Cato by the integrity of
1013 42 | prison, as had also Caius Muraena in Further Gaul, who governed
1014 19 | towards his province, was murdered by some Spanish cavalry
1015 53 | mind to the skies. With mutual reproaches, they accused
1016 22 | to one another, by being mutually conscious of such an atrocity.
1017 23 | state a secret; but, without naming her informant, communicated
1018 8 | chose to act rather than narrate, and was more desirous that
1019 4 | But before I enter upon my narrative, I must give a short description
1020 3 | equal glory attends the narrator and the performer of illustrious
1021 36 | condition; for though every nation, from the rising to the
1022 40 | supposing that as they were nationally and individually involved
1023 44 | one Titus Volturcius, a native of Crotona, he himself giving
1024 9 | influence of the laws than from natural inclination. They displayed
1025 12 | was another’s; they set at naught modesty and continence;
1026 2 | Even in agriculture, in navigation, and in architecture, whatever
1027 17 | required, he summoned all whose necessities were the most urgent, and
1028 43 | an enterprise, there was need, not of deliberation, but
1029 18 | the most daring spirit, needy and discontented, named
1030 54 | interests of his friends, he was neglectful of his own; he refused nothing
1031 6 | consequence of its prosperity. The neighboring kings and people, accordingly,
1032 50 | the opinion of Tiberius Nero, who had proposed that the
1033 | nevertheless
1034 17 | equestrian order, Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, Lucius Statilius, Publius
1035 18 | that time, too, a young nobleman of the most daring spirit,
1036 53 | regarded as the greatest and noblest of men; and a decree of
1037 42 | everything at once, and, by nocturnal meetings, by removing armor
1038 51 | without a trial, all who were notoriously wicked, or publicly detestable;
1039 21 | Spain, and Publius Sittius Nucerinus with an army in Mauritania,
1040 51 | his influence to have him numbered among the proscribed. Thus
1041 21 | these men, surrounded with numberless evils but without any resources
1042 15 | cleared the house for their nuptials by putting his son to death.
1043 48 | personal reasons, being under obligation to Crassus), exclaimed that
1044 3 | eagerness for honors, the same obloquy and jealousy, which disquieted
1045 8 | makes everything famous or obscure rather from caprice than
1046 43 | spirit in his associates; observing, that they wasted excellent
1047 51 | mind, when such feelings obstruct its view, cannot easily
1048 27 | Cicero, who was the chief obstruction to his measures. ~
1049 20 | have, on many remarkable occasions, experienced your bravery
1050 16 | for crime did not readily occur, he invited them, nevertheless,
1051 4 | the Roman people, as any occurrence should seem worthy of mention;
1052 50 | 50 While these occurrences were passing in the senate,
1053 30 | the field by the 27th of October. Others at the same time,
1054 60 | thrown into confusion, and offering but partial resistance,
1055 20 | All these prizes fortune offers to the victorious. Let the
1056 59 | the right, and a certain officer of Faesulae on the left;
1057 30 | parts adjacent, both which officers, with the title of commanders,
1058 Arg| arrangements, and those of his opponents, for the battle, LIX.—His
1059 43 | that they wasted excellent opportunities through hesitation and delay;
1060 58 | the other on that of Gaul, oppose our progress; while the
1061 6 | dissimilar language, and opposite habits of life, formed a
1062 51 | which our ancestors, in opposition to the impulse of passion,
1063 43 | lay the odium of this most oppressive war on the excellent consul;
1064 20 | spirit is unbroken; among our oppressors, on the contrary, through
1065 2 | human affairs would be more orderly and settled, and you would
1066 6 | monarchical power, which had been originally established for the protection
1067 26 | around him, though without ostentation, a guard of his friends
1068 | otherwise
1069 31 | invectives, they all raised an outcry against him, and called
1070 48 | city they thought inhuman, outrageous, and fatal especially to
1071 39 | and without apprehension; overawing others, at the same time,
1072 6 | be least likely to grow overbearing through want of control. ~
1073 7 | formidable; their valor had overcome everything. But among themselves
1074 51 | all; and thus the state, overpowered and enslaved, paid a heavy
1075 16 | Catiline formed the design of overthrowing the government. There was
1076 6 | or government, free and owning no control. How easily these
1077 2 | architecture, whatever man performs owns the dominion of intellect.
1078 15 | complexion, in consequence, was pale, his eyes haggard, his walk
1079 Arg| of Roman greatness, LIII.—Parallel between Caesar and Cato,
1080 54 | by giving, relieving, and pardoning; Cato by bestowing nothing.
1081 53 | magistrates; when, as if the parent stock were exhausted, there
1082 51 | be decreed against these parricides of their country? I answer
1083 60 | confusion, and offering but partial resistance, he made great
1084 51 | becomes us to indulge neither partiality nor aversion, but least
1085 38 | truth in few words whatever parties, during that period, disturbed
1086 51 | Sylla had glutted all his partisans with riches. ~ “Such excesses,
1087 4 | hope, fear, or political partisanship. I shall accordingly give
1088 58 | would go, we must open a passage with our swords. I conjure
1089 51 | good; but when a government passes into the hands of the ignorant
1090 50 | While these occurrences were passing in the senate, and while
1091 2 | nature points out different paths to different individuals. ~
1092 19 | such an outrage, but had patiently submitted to many severe
1093 5 | by the diminution of his patrimony, and by his consciousness
1094 41 | Quintus Fabius Sanga, to whose patronage their state was very greatly
1095 31 | himself was accused by Lucius Paullus under the Plautian law.
1096 50 | to disturb the state for pay. Cethegus, at the same time,
1097 28 | Cicero, under pretence of paying their respects to him, and
1098 51 | should inflict only such penalties as the laws have provided. ~ “
1099 52 | diminished; but if they shall perceive you in the smallest degree
1100 40 | they would not most gladly perform, if it would but free their
1101 3 | attends the narrator and the performer of illustrious deeds, it
1102 2 | architecture, whatever man performs owns the dominion of intellect.
1103 | Perhaps
1104 29 | accordingly, as is usual in any perilous emergency, decreed that
1105 33 | of considering how we may perish, so best to avenge our blood.” ~
1106 1 | and beauty is fleeting and perishable; that of intellectual power
1107 14 | their hand maintained by perjury or civil bloodshed; all,
1108 29 | people, the consul is not permitted to exercise. ~
1109 18 | would that day have been perpetrated the most atrocious outrage
1110 51 | carried on against king Perses, the great and powerful
1111 10 | 10 But when, by perseverance and integrity, the republic
1112 31 | unrelenting spirit of Catiline persisted in the same purposes, notwithstanding
1113 49 | But when they failed to persuade the consul to such injustice,
1114 26 | proceedings. He had also persuaded his colleague, Antonius,
1115 34 | they wished to make any petition to the senate, they must
1116 57 | into the neighborhood of Pistoria, with a view to escape covertly,
1117 51 | hatred, affection, anger, nor pity. The mind, when such feelings
1118 59 | nature of the ground. As a plain stretched between the mountains
1119 57 | large army, yet through plainer ground, and with fewer hindrances,
1120 1 | beginning to act, and, after planning, to act with promptitude
1121 38 | disturbed the republic under plausible pretexts, some, as if to
1122 31 | Lucius Paullus under the Plautian law. At last, with a view
1123 25 | literature; she could sing, play, and dance, with greater
1124 11 | exemption from discipline; and pleasant and luxurious quarters had
1125 35 | me by experience, gives a pleasing confidence, in the midst
1126 20 | worthy, whether noble or plebeian, have been regarded as a
1127 Arg| between the patricians and plebeians, XXXVIII.—The effect which
1128 48 | if the public faith were pledged to him, and being directed
1129 44 | by giving and receiving pledges of faith, Lentulus sent
1130 51 | dwelling-houses would be plundered; that massacres and fires
1131 11 | all became robbers and plunderers; some set their affections
1132 36 | obstinate determination, to plunge themselves and their country
1133 11 | as if imbued with deadly poison, enervates whatever is manly
1134 37 | live in regal luxury and pomp, hoped, each for himself,
1135 30 | The praetors, too, Quintus Pompeius Rufus, and Quintus Metellus
1136 49 | ever since he stood for the pontificate, because, at an advanced
1137 37 | every state, they that are poor envy those of a better class,
1138 38 | which methods they became popular and powerful. On the other
1139 54 | thus, the less he courted popularity, the more it pursued him. ~
1140 6 | state, from an accession of population and territory, and an improved
1141 4 | determined to write, in detached portions, the transactions of the
1142 52 | you wish to preserve those possessions, of whatever kind they are,
1143 Arg| IX.—Degeneracy of their posterity, X.-XIII.—Catiline’s associates
1144 18 | design being discovered, they postponed the assassination to the
1145 51 | its tyrant, and reason is powerless. ~ “I could easily mention,
1146 51 | and other like abuses were practiced; and it was then that the
1147 59 | thirty years, as tribune, praefect, lieutenant, or praetor,
1148 10 | being the most equitable and praiseworthy, became rapacious and insupportable. ~
1149 51 | with our example for a precedent, the consul shall have drawn
1150 51 | to inflict on others. All precedents productive of evil effects,
1151 47 | the Sibylline books, was predestined to three Cornelii, that
1152 20 | expectation deceives me, and you prefer to be slaves rather than
1153 39 | dubious state of affairs, had presented itself, the old spirit of
1154 14 | into his society, he was presently rendered, by daily intercourse
1155 52 | gods, who have so often preserved your country in the greatest
1156 35 | present circumstances, for preserving what honor is left to me.
1157 58 | the same exigency does not press upon our adversaries, as
1158 58 | upon our adversaries, as presses upon us; we fight for our
1159 40 | which you may escape these pressing difficulties.” When he had
1160 33 | silver, by reason of the pressure of debt, and with the consent
1161 49 | of their own, which they pretended to have heard from Volturcius
1162 5 | and versatile, capable of pretending or dissembling whatever
1163 38 | republic under plausible pretexts, some, as if to defend the
1164 47 | acted, at first began to prevaricate, and to pretend ignorance
1165 58 | and of other necessaries, prevents us from remaining, however
1166 15 | virgin of noble birth, with a priestess of Vesta, and of many other
1167 Arg| contrivance of Cicero, XLV.—The principal conspirators at Rome are
1168 61 | any free-born citizen made prisoner, for they had spared their
1169 9 | possible avarice. Justice and probity prevailed among the citizens,
1170 30 | spread reports of omens and prodigies; others of meetings being
1171 13 | sought for every kind of production by land and by sea; they
1172 51 | on others. All precedents productive of evil effects, have had
1173 37 | took the lead in crime and profligacy, with others who had squandered
1174 23 | sudden, to boast, and to promise her seas and mountains;
1175 32 | destructive operations of war; promising that he himself would shortly
1176 39 | principles or circumstances, to promote an insurrection; and not
1177 19 | into Hither Spain; Crassus promoting the appointment, because
1178 6 | of liberty, and for the promotion of the public interest,
1179 13 | luxurious indulgence. Such propensities drove the youth, when their
1180 56 | about a fourth part had the proper weapons of soldiers; the
1181 22 | charge, is not at all in proportion to its magnitude. ~
1182 30 | given them to levy a force proportioned to the exigency and the
1183 52 | support of their different proposals; but Marcus Porcius Cato,
1184 51 | you, a consul elect, to propose this new kind of punishment.
1185 21 | abolition of their debts; a proscription of the wealthy citizens;
1186 20 | left only insults, dangers, prosecutions, and poverty. To such indignities,
1187 20 | circumstances are bad, our prospects much worse; and what, in
1188 20 | had not been sufficiently proved by me, this favorable opportunity
1189 32 | augment his army, and make provision for the war before the legions
1190 58 | will be safe, we shall have provisions in abundance; and the colonies
1191 52 | vigilance, activity, and prudent measures, that general welfare
1192 51 | were notoriously wicked, or publicly detestable; acts at which
1193 31 | he afterwards wrote and published. ~ When Cicero sat down,
1194 20 | embossed plate; though they pull down new buildings and erect
1195 51 | faithlessness. Throughout the Punic Wars, too, though the Carthaginians,
1196 52 | speech to the following purport: ~ “My feelings, Conscript
1197 31 | Catiline persisted in the same purposes, notwithstanding the precautions
1198 14 | in a word, neither his purse nor his character, if he
1199 39 | the same time Lentulus, in pursuance of Catiline’s directions,
1200 54 | popularity, the more it pursued him. ~
1201 11 | the worthless; but the one pursues them by just methods; the
1202 51 | and not a torment; that it puts an end to all human woes;
1203 19 | afterwards, Piso was sent as quaestor, with Praetorian authority,
1204 42 | governed that province in quality of legate. ~
1205 14 | sacrilegious persons from every quarter, convicted or dreading conviction
1206 47 | 47 Volturcius, being questioned concerning his journey,
1207 15 | haggard, his walk sometimes quick and sometimes slow, and
1208 58 | present course. If you wish to quit it, you must exert all your
1209 61 | of the enemy; he was not quite breathless, and still expressed
1210 58 | courage is equivalent to a rampart. ~ “When I contemplate you,
1211 59 | his lieutenant. Petreius ranged the cohorts of veterans,
1212 59 | armed, into the foremost ranks. He ordered Caius Manlius
1213 43 | that success depended on rapidity of execution. ~
1214 58 | you must exert all your re. solution for none but conquerors
1215 43 | soon as Catiline should reach the neighborhood of Faesulae,
1216 44 | Allobroges, before they reached home, might confirm their
1217 3 | and next, because most readers consider that whatever errors
1218 51 | at home with the greatest readiness, being more inclined to
1219 53 | he had advised. ~ After reading and hearing of the many
1220 52 | is true, we have lost the real names of things; for to
1221 47 | every circumstance as it had really occurred, stating that he
1222 59 | in close order, in the rear. From among these he removed
1223 1 | appears to me, therefore, more reasonable to pursue glory by means
1224 51 | mind is freely exerted, its reasoning is sound; but passion, if
1225 37 | flocked to Rome as a general receptacle of impurity. In the next
1226 61 | others a relative; some, too, recognized their enemies. Thus, gladness
1227 53 | eminent ability. Within my recollection, however, there arose two
1228 3 | acted, and many who have recorded the actions of others, receive
1229 51 | the republic; they have recounted the barbarities of war,
1230 11 | after Lucius Sylla, having recovered the government by force
1231 56 | afterwards, as any volunteers, or recruits from his confederates, arrived
1232 25 | was distinguished by much refinement of wit, and much grace of
1233 44 | whom I have sent to you. Reflect seriously in how desperate
1234 54 | In Caesar, there was a refuge for the unfortunate; in
1235 37 | so enriched as to live in regal luxury and pomp, hoped,
1236 3 | beyond his own conception he regards as fictitious and incredible. ~
1237 59 | common soldiers that were regularly armed, into the foremost
1238 6 | They had a government regulated by laws. The denomination
1239 58 | and how, while waiting for reinforcements from the city, I was unable
1240 61 | an acquaintance, others a relative; some, too, recognized their
1241 33 | the commonalty at Rome, relieved their distress by decrees;
1242 54 | acquired renown by giving, relieving, and pardoning; Cato by
1243 9 | were magnificent in their religious services, frugal in their
1244 33 | which no honorable man relinquishes but with life. We therefore
1245 58 | necessaries, prevents us from remaining, however strongly we may
1246 52 | Coeparius, why should I make any remark upon them? Had they ever
1247 47 | letter to Catiline, but with remarks which he was in the habit
1248 40 | looked to death as the only remedy for their sufferings, “Yet
1249 21 | his associates by name, reminded one of his poverty, another
1250 52 | strength was proof against your remissness. The question, however,
1251 52 | though you little regarded my remonstrances, yet the republic remained
1252 42 | by nocturnal meetings, by removing armor and weapons from place
1253 51 | directed? Was it intended to render you indignant at the conspiracy?
1254 54 | to Cato. Caesar acquired renown by giving, relieving, and
1255 6 | when they had at length repelled danger by valor, they lent
1256 34 | address Quintus Marcius replied, that, “if they wished to
1257 30 | in such a crisis, spread reports of omens and prodigies;
1258 45 | the rest as occasion might require. Being military men, they
1259 1 | insufficient of itself, the one requires the assistance of the other. ~
1260 28 | for defense, in his own residence. But Curius, when he heard
1261 20 | other men’s insolence, to resign a wretched and degraded
1262 46 | Having, however, formed his resolutions he ordered Lentulus, Cethegus,
1263 51 | to consider well what you resolve to inflict on others. All
1264 26 | to proceed to war, and to resort to the utmost extremities,
1265 11 | temples; and to cast off respect for everything, sacred and
1266 26 | Antonius, by an arrangement respecting their provinces, to entertain
1267 43 | proceed to execute their respective parts. ~ These parts are
1268 28 | pretence of paying their respects to him, and to kill him
1269 33 | unhappy fellow-citizens; to restore us the protection of the
1270 38 | Crassus, had been fully restored, certain young men, of an
1271 10 | slowly, and were sometimes restrained by correction; but afterwards,
1272 11 | victorious troops knew neither restraint nor moderation, but inflicted
1273 13 | women threw off all the restraints of modesty. To gratify appetite,
1274 37 | each for himself, similar results from victory, if they should
1275 53 | 53 When Cato had resumed his seat, all the senators
1276 51 | ancestors never took occasion to retaliate, but considered rather what
1277 45 | Pomtinus, to arrest the retinue of the Allobroges, by lying
1278 37 | which, after many years, had returned upon the community to the
1279 4 | agriculture or hunting; but, returning to those studies from which,
1280 9 | rather to pardon than to revenge it. ~
1281 52 | not now debating on the revenues, or on injuries done to
1282 48 | to the city, in order to revive the courage of the rest,
1283 37 | support themselves amidst revolt and sedition, without anxiety,
1284 28 | property), were eager for a revolution. He also attached to himself
1285 52 | and dangers, and when I revolve in my mind the sentiments
1286 51 | great and powerful state of Rhodes, which had risen by the
1287 51 | and the conduct of the Rhodians was taken into consideration,
1288 54 | contend in splendor with the rich, or in faction with the
1289 59 | his force in lines. Then, riding round among his troops,
1290 50 | some, too, applied to the ringleaders of the mob, who were always
1291 31 | long tranquillity had given rise, a sudden gloom spread over
1292 36 | though every nation, from the rising to the setting of the sun,
1293 22 | it, as is usual in sacred rites, he disclosed his design;
1294 10 | subjection; when Carthage, the rival of Rome’s dominion, had
1295 7 | among themselves the grand rivalry was for glory; each sought
1296 57 | escape covertly, by cross roads, into Gaul. ~ But Quintus
1297 35 | indignities, since, being robbed of the fruit of my labor
1298 5 | civil commotions, bloodshed, robbery, and sedition; and in such
1299 59 | the left, with a rugged rock on the right, he placed
1300 5 | pursuing objects extravagant, romantic, and unattainable. ~ Since
1301 55 | and over it is a vaulted roof connected with stone arches;
1302 59 | these to their remembrance, roused the spirits of the men. ~
1303 57 | therefore, he had learned his route from some deserters, he
1304 30 | praetors, too, Quintus Pompeius Rufus, and Quintus Metellus Celer,
1305 47 | that Cinna and Sylla had ruled already; and that he himself
1306 33 | by the arrogance of their rulers, seceded under arms from
1307 8 | But, assuredly, Fortune rules in all things. She makes
1308 21 | poverty, another of his ruling passion, several others
1309 30 | In consequence of these rumors, Quintus Marcius Rex was
1310 56 | the cause of citizens with runagates. ~
1311 21 | wealthy citizens; offices, sacerdotal duties, plunder, and all
1312 14 | offences; all assassins or sacrilegious persons from every quarter,
1313 51 | impressive language, the sad fate that threatens the
1314 30 | days afterwards, Lucius Saenius, a senator, read to the
1315 43 | conflagration, they were to sally forth to join Catiline. ~
1316 51 | they borrowed from the Samnites; their ensigns of authority,
1317 43 | inactive. Being naturally bold, sanguine, and prompt to act, he thought
1318 31 | published. ~ When Cicero sat down, Catiline, being prepared
1319 17 | had ascertained, to his satisfaction, all that he required, he
1320 29 | efforts, nor could gain satisfactory intelligence of the magnitude
1321 2 | covetousness; every one was satisfied with his own. But after
1322 6 | joined the Aborigines, a savage race of men, without laws
1323 45 | to whom he was known, to save his life, and at last, terrified
1324 7 | first to wound an enemy, to scale a wall, and to be noticed
1325 37 | the country, had earned a scanty livelihood by manual labor,
1326 5 | and sedition; and in such scenes he had spent his early years.
1327 30 | further appointed that the schools of gladiators should be
1328 48 | the danger, more readily screen the rest. Others said that
1329 11 | admire statues, pictures, and sculptured vases; to seize such objects
1330 44 | which they might carry under seal to their countrymen, who
1331 47 | previously acknowledged their seals, decreed that Lentulus,
1332 11 | quarters had easily, during seasons of idleness, enervated the
1333 33 | arrogance of their rulers, seceded under arms from the patricians.
1334 2 | intent upon some employment, seeks reputation from some ennobling
1335 | seem
1336 42 | without consideration and seemingly with madness, to attempt
1337 11 | and sculptured vases; to seize such objects alike in public
1338 18 | February, when they, having seized on the fasces, were to send
1339 12 | off all consideration and self-restraint. ~ It furnishes much matter
1340 5 | which extravagance and selfishness, pernicious and contending
1341 17 | meeting there were present, of senatorial rank: Publius Lentulus Sura,
1342 Arg| His accomplice, Manlius, sends a deputation to Marcius,
1343 27 | adjacent parts of Etruria; one Septimius, of Camerinum, into the
1344 59 | military man, and having served with great reputation, for
1345 27 | thought each would be most serviceable. He himself, in the mean
1346 4 | inactivity, or, engaging in servile occupations, to spend my
1347 Arg| in the Senate, XXXI.—He sets out for Etruria, XXXII.—
1348 43 | they were thus forming and settling their plans, Cethegus was
1349 61 | battle, or left the field severely wounded. ~ Of many who went
1350 51 | it because scourging is a severer penalty than death? Yet
1351 16 | them of all character and shame, he led them to other and
1352 48 | instigation he had fabricated so shameful a calumny.” ~ There were
1353 14 | desperate. For all those shameless, libertine, and profligate
1354 3 | integrity, there prevailed shamelessness, corruption, and rapacity.
1355 6 | with alarm, shrunk from sharing their dangers. But the Romans,
1356 56 | carried darts, spears, or sharpened stakes. ~ As Antonius approached
1357 2 | would not see governments shifted from hand to hand, and things
1358 24 | event which gave the first shock to the conspirators. The
1359 40 | will but act as men, will show you a method by which you
1360 47 | sovereignty of Rome, by the Sibylline books, was predestined to
1361 16 | witnesses, and forgers of signatures; and he taught them all
1362 33 | within our own memory, silver, by reason of the pressure
1363 6 | from their age, or from the similarity of their duty, were called
1364 54 | fortitude, with the modest in simplicity, with the temperate in abstinence,
1365 27 | mean time, was making many simultaneous efforts at Rome; he laid
1366 25 | Roman literature; she could sing, play, and dance, with greater
1367 20 | discussed many points with them singly, yet thinking it would be
1368 21 | Hither Spain, and Publius Sittius Nucerinus with an army in
1369 1 | appetite. All our power is situate in the mind and in the body.
1370 12 | and villas extended to the size of cities, to contemplate
1371 25 | extremely fortunate; she was skilled in Greek and Roman literature;
1372 60 | a valiant soldier and a skillful general. ~ When Petreius,
1373 30 | his reward should be, if a slave, his freedom and a hundred
1374 48 | and, as if rescued from slavery, to give proofs of joy and
1375 15 | comfort either waking or sleeping; so effectually did conscience
1376 27 | was exhausted neither by sleeplessness nor by toil. At last, however,
1377 13 | by land and by sea; they slept before there vas any inclination
1378 55 | dungeon, and which, after a slight ascent to the left, is sunk
1379 15 | sometimes quick and sometimes slow, and distraction was plainly
1380 51 | observe the law as to the smaller point, when you disregard
1381 15 | religion. At last, when he was smitten with a passion for Aurelia
1382 11 | enervated the minds of the soldiery. Then the armies of the
1383 Arg| XXXIX.—The Allobroges are solicited to engage in the conspiracy,
1384 50 | Cethegus, at the same time, was soliciting, through his agents, his
1385 58 | must exert all your re. solution for none but conquerors
1386 61 | had dispersed, had fallen somewhat differently, but all with
1387 48 | such power was rather to be soothed than irritated (most of
1388 40 | other persons, of every sort, who were guiltless of it,
1389 28 | attached to himself all sorts of marauders, who were numerous
1390 7 | the worth of others is a source of alarm. But when liberty
1391 10 | became, as it were, the sources of every evil. For avarice
1392 53 | forces against powerful sovereigns; that they had often sustained,
1393 7 | strengthened itself in a short space of time, so strong a passion
1394 18 | take possession of the two Spains. But their design being
1395 19 | his instigation, since the Spaniards, they observe, had never
1396 19 | province, was murdered by some Spanish cavalry whom he had in his
1397 52 | their assent, some to one speaker, and some to another, in
1398 52 | spoken before me. Those speakers, as it seems to me, have
1399 48 | that no further liberty of speaking should be granted him, unless
1400 56 | equipped them, carried darts, spears, or sharpened stakes. ~
1401 10 | interest; and to carry rather a specious countenance than an honest
1402 57 | resolved upon engaging, as speedily as possible, with Antonius.
1403 4 | servile occupations, to spend my time in agriculture or
1404 47 | charge to Publius Lentulus Spinther, who was then aedile; Cethegus,
1405 58 | inspire courage; and that a spiritless army cannot be rendered
1406 17 | of living at ease, either splendidly or voluptuously, preferred
1407 54 | austerity; he did not contend in splendor with the rich, or in faction
1408 11 | and private dwellings; to spoil temples; and to cast off
1409 61 | covered with his corpse the spot which he had occupied when
1410 49 | one person to another, and spreading fictions of their own, which
1411 31 | him;” saying “that he was sprung from such a family, and
1412 37 | profligacy, with others who had squandered their fortunes in dissipation,
1413 47 | had often said would be stained with the blood of civil
1414 52 | liberty and our life is at stake. ~ “Often, Conscript Fathers,
1415 56 | darts, spears, or sharpened stakes. ~ As Antonius approached
1416 9 | had dared to desert their standards or, when pressed by the
1417 18 | had been prevented from standing for the consulship, because
1418 48 | influence, some, thinking the statement incredible, others, though
1419 51 | of the senate, who shall stay its progress, or moderate
1420 36 | Catiline himself, having stayed a few days with Caius Flaminius
1421 10 | principles, and, in their stead, inculcated pride, inhumanity,
1422 9 | frugal in their families, and steady in their friendships. ~
1423 7 | splendid arms and military steeds than in the society of mistresses
1424 55 | the filth, darkness, and stench. When Lentulus had been
1425 15 | dread of having a grown-up step-son, he cleared the house for
1426 38 | that high office, began to stir up the populace by inveighing
1427 28 | Manlius was in Etruria, stirring up the populace, who, both
1428 53 | when, as if the parent stock were exhausted, there was
1429 55 | vaulted roof connected with stone arches; but its appearance
1430 49 | hated him ever since he stood for the pontificate, because,
1431 58 | the terror in his breast stops his ears. ~ “I have called
1432 43 | would support him, would storm the senate-house while the
1433 59 | centurions, the veterans, and the stoutest of the common soldiers that
1434 2 | life like travelers in a strange country; to whom, certainly,
1435 55 | whom orders had been given, strangled him with a cord. Thus this
1436 14 | were easily ensnared by his stratagems. For as the passions of
1437 32 | determination he was assured, to strengthen the interests of their party
1438 7 | incredible how much the state strengthened itself in a short space
1439 59 | of the ground. As a plain stretched between the mountains on
1440 33 | which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we
1441 51 | indiscriminately, and to strike terror into all; and thus
1442 16 | At length, when he had stripped them of all character and
1443 1 | excel other animals, to strive, to the utmost of their
1444 58 | from remaining, however strongly we may desire to remain,
1445 39 | victorious, or left the struggle undecided, great distress
1446 51 | before me, have deplored, in studied and impressive language,
1447 4 | but, returning to those studies from which, at their commencement,
1448 52 | this wonderful; since you study each his individual interest,
1449 51 | parents; that matrons would be subjected to the pleasure of the conquerors;
1450 52 | defenseless state. ~ “But on these subjects I shall say no more. Certain
1451 2 | Athenians in Greece, began to subjugate cities and nations, to deem
1452 23 | the sword, if she were not submissive to his will; and acting,
1453 20 | of men, how long will you submit? Is it not better to die
1454 19 | outrage, but had patiently submitted to many severe commands.
1455 34 | combination of his enemies, he was submitting to the will of fortune,
1456 48 | said that Tarquinius was suborned by Cicero, that Crassus
1457 24 | Manlius, at Faesulae, who was subsequently the first to engage in hostilities.
1458 37 | disorders would furnish subsistence. It is not at all surprising,
1459 60 | sustaining such as were pressed, substituting fresh men for the wounded,
1460 5 | belief. His mind was daring, subtle, and versatile, capable
1461 Arg| accomplices, and resolution to subvert the government, XVI.—His
1462 10 | every evil. For avarice subverted honesty, integrity, and
1463 27 | of his numerous projects succeeded, he again, with the aid
1464 57 | hope either of escape or of succor, thinking it best, in such
1465 51 | death is a relief from suffering, and not a torment; that
1466 40 | the only remedy for their sufferings, “Yet I,” said he, “if you
1467 51 | and resolution, made the suggestions which he offered, from zeal
1468 59 | foot, drew up his troops suitably to their numbers and the
1469 55 | at Rome, met with an end suited to his character and conduct.
1470 23 | consulship in some degree sullied, if a man of no family,
1471 24 | throughout Italy; he sent sums of money, borrowed on his
1472 36 | rising to the setting of the sun, lay in subjection to her
1473 31 | with downcast looks and suppliant voice, that “the Conscript
1474 34 | their arms, and proceed as suppliants to Rome;” adding, that “
1475 31 | way to lamentation, raised supplicating hands to heaven, mourned
1476 52 | obtained by vows and effeminate supplications; it is by vigilance, activity,
1477 36 | of Arretium while he was supplying the adjacent parts, already
1478 38 | under pretence, indeed, of supporting the senate, but in reality
1479 40 | participation in the war; supposing that as they were nationally
1480 17 | senatorial rank: Publius Lentulus Sura, Publius Autronius, Lucius
1481 53 | in eloquence, the Gauls surpassed them in military glory.
1482 5 | sleep, and cold, to a degree surpassing belief. His mind was daring,
1483 37 | subsistence. It is not at all surprising, therefore, that men in
1484 58 | numbers of the enemy from surrounding us, our confined situation
1485 60 | When he had made a complete survey, he gave the signal with
1486 57 | station in Picenum, who suspected that Catiline, from the
1487 41 | Allobroges were long in suspense what course they should
1488 51 | both during peace, and in suspensions of arms, were guilty of
1489 Arg| of the populace, and the suspicions entertained against Crassus,
1490 53 | sovereigns; that they had often sustained, too, the violence of adverse
1491 60 | light troops in the front, sustaining such as were pressed, substituting
1492 10 | lay everywhere open to her sway, Fortune then began to exercise
1493 51 | kings and nations, who, swayed by resentment or compassion,
1494 8 | because writers of great talent flourished there, the actions
1495 22 | after an imprecation, had tasted of it, as is usual in sacred
1496 16 | forgers of signatures; and he taught them all to regard, with
1497 20 | and states have paid them taxes; but all the rest of us,
1498 54 | in simplicity, with the temperate in abstinence, he was more
1499 14 | by daily intercourse and temptation, similar and equal to the
1500 37 | livelihood by manual labor, tempted by public and private largesses,
1501 25 | other accomplishments that tend to excite the passions.
1502 47 | in his flight, to Cneius Terentius, a senator. ~
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