Against Catiline II
Cicero, In Catilinam II
Next day, to the people: Catiline has gone, and Cicero sizes up the men he left behind. 13 sections, 167 sentences, each with an English translation.
Read it with every word glossed and parsed, and keep your place.
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- Chapter 1Catiline is goneTandem aliquandō, Quirītēs, L. Catilīnam, furentem audāciā, scelus anhēlantem,…
- Chapter 2Why Catiline was not put to deathAc sī quis est tālis quālis esse omnīs oportēbat, quī in hōc ipsō in quō…
- Chapter 3The men Catiline left behindItaque ego illum exercitum prae Gallicānīs legiōnibus et hōc dīlēctū quem in…
- Chapter 4Catiline's school of viceQuod exspectāvī, iam sum adsecūtus ut vōs omnēs factam esse apertē…
- Chapter 5His followers in the cityAtque ut eius dīversa studia in dissimilī ratiōne perspicere possītis, nēmō est…
- Chapter 6Driven into exile?At etiam sunt quī dīcant, Quirītēs, ā mē ēiectum esse Catilīnam.
- Chapter 7Better exile than warŌ condiciōnem miseram nōn modo administrandae vērum etiam cōnservandae reī…
- Chapter 8The first class: rich men in debtSed cūr tam diū dē ūnō hoste loquimur et dē eō hoste quī iam fatētur sē esse…
- Chapter 9The ambitious and Sulla's veteransAlterum genus est eōrum quī, quamquam premuntur aere aliēnō, dominātiōnem tamen…
- Chapter 10The ruined, the criminals and Catiline's own setQuārtum genus est sānē varium et mīxtum et turbulentum;
- Chapter 11Catiline's army against the might of RomeŌ bellum magnō opere pertimēscendum, cum hanc sit habitūrus Catilīna scortōrum…
- Chapter 12Precautions, and a warning to those left behindQuae cum ita sint, Quirītēs, vōs, quem ad modum iam anteā dīxī, vestra tēcta…
- Chapter 13Peace without bloodshed, under the godsAtque haec omnia sīc agentur ut maximae rēs minimō mōtū, perīcula summa nūllō…
Cicero, In Catilinam II. Latin text: A. C. Clark, M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes (Oxford, 1908), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: LatinCy, then every word checked and corrected by hand. Vocabulary: F. Ritchie (1903, public domain) and entries written for this app. English translation, notes and grammar hints: written for this app.