Mur. 25.1Quibus rēbus quī timor bonīs omnibus iniectus sit quantaque dēspērātiō reī pūblicae, sī ille factus esset, nōlīte ā mē commonērī velle;What fear was thereby struck into all good men, and how great would have been the despair for the state if he had been elected, do not ask me to remind you; Mur. 25.1vōsmet ipsī vōbīscum recordāminī.recall it yourselves in your own minds. Mur. 25.1Meministis enim, cum illīus nefāriī gladiātōris vōcēs percrēbruissent quās habuisse in contiōne domesticā dīcēbātur, cum miserōrum fidēlem dēfēnsōrem negāsset invenīrī posse nisi eum quī ipse miser esset;For you remember, when the words of that wicked gladiator had spread abroad, which he was said to have uttered at a meeting in his own house, when he had said that no faithful defender of the wretched could be found except one who was himself wretched; Mur. 25.1integrōrum et fortūnātōrum prōmissīs sauciōs et miserōs crēdere nōn oportēre;that the wounded and wretched ought not to trust the promises of the sound and fortunate; Mur. 25.1quā rē quī cōnsūmpta replēre, ērepta reciperāre vellent, spectārent quid ipse dēbēret, quid possidēret, quid audēret;and so those who wished to refill what they had squandered and recover what had been taken from them should look at what he himself owed, what he possessed, what he dared; Mur. 25.1minimē timidum et valdē calamitōsum esse oportēre eum quī esset futūrus dux et signifer calamitōsōrum.that the man who was to be the leader and standard-bearer of the ruined ought to be not at all timid and thoroughly ruined himself.
Mur. 25.51Tum igitur, hīs rēbus audītīs, meministis fierī senātūs cōnsultum referente mē nē posterō diē comitia habērentur, ut dē hīs rēbus in senātū agere possēmus.Then, therefore, when these things had been heard, you remember that a decree of the senate was passed, on my motion, that the elections should not be held the next day, so that we might discuss these matters in the senate. Mur. 25.51Itaque postrīdiē frequentī senātū Catilīnam excitāvī atque eum dē hīs rēbus iussī, sī quid vellet, quae ad mē adlātae essent dīcere.And so on the following day, in a full senate, I called upon Catiline and bade him say, if he wished, anything about these matters which had been reported to me. Mur. 25.51Atque ille, ut semper fuit apertissimus, nōn sē pūrgāvit sed indicāvit atque induit.And he, open as he always was, did not clear himself but revealed and ensnared himself. Mur. 25.51Tum enim dīxit duo corpora esse reī pūblicae, ūnum dēbile īnfirmō capite, alterum firmum sine capite;For he then said that there were two bodies in the state, one feeble with a weak head, the other strong but without a head; Mur. 25.51huic, sī ita dē sē meritum esset, caput sē vīvō nōn dēfutūrum.that this one, if it so deserved of him, would not lack a head while he lived.
Mur. 25.51Congemuit senātus frequēns neque tamen satis sevērē prō reī indignitāte dēcrēvit;The full senate groaned, and yet did not decree with the severity the outrage deserved; Mur. 25.51nam partim ideō fortēs in dēcernendō nōn erant, quia nihil timēbant, partim, quia omnia.for some were not firm in decreeing because they feared nothing, others because they feared everything. Mur. 25.51Ērūpit ē senātū triumphāns gaudiō quem omnīnō vīvum illinc exīre nōn oportuerat, praesertim cum īdem ille in eōdem ōrdine paucīs diēbus ante Catōnī, fortissimō virō, iūdicium minitantī ac dēnūntiantī respondisset, sī quod esset in suās fortūnās incendium excitātum, id sē nōn aquā sed ruīnā restīnctūrum.He burst out of the senate exulting with joy, a man who ought never to have left that place alive at all, especially since that same man, in the same body, a few days before, had answered Cato, a most courageous man, who was threatening and giving notice of a prosecution, that if any fire was kindled against his fortunes, he would put it out not with water but with demolition.