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How Long, Catiline?

Cicero · In Catilinam I 1

Latin · Level 3 · ~2 min

How Long, Catiline?

Cicero, In Catilinam I 1

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora voltusque moverunt? Patere tua consilia non sentis, constrictam iam horum omnium scientia teneri coniurationem tuam non vides? Quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consili ceperis quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris?

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Cicero, In Catilinam I 1. Source text. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit; edition: A. C. Clark, Oxford 1908; sentence capitals restored (Perseus <reg>). Word analyses are machine-generated, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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