The World's Famous Orations, Volume 2Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1906 - Speeches, addresses, etc |
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¹ Delivered able acts of Cæsar allies Altho ancestors appear arms army assembly audacity authority B.C. Reported banishment Born brave Caius Verres Campanian Capua Carthage Carthaginians Catiline Cato cause Charles Duke Yonge Cicero Cnæus Pompeius comitia command conquered conscript fathers consul consulship crimes danger decemvirs deeds defend desire dignity disgrace enemy favor fear fellow citizens fortune friends Gaul glory greatest Hannibal honor illustrious immortal gods Italy judges Jugurtha king lands liberty live Livy Lucius Mandonius Manlius Marcus Antonius Metellus mind nefarious never Oppian oration passed plunder praise pretor province punishment put to death recollection regard republic Roman Rome Rullus Sallust Scipio SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR senate Sicily slain slaves soldiers Spain speak speech Tacitus temples things thought Tiberius Ticino tion translation tribune truth unpopularity victory virtue Vitellius whole wicked wickedness wish yourselves
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Page 97 - But yet this, which ought to have been done long since, I have good reason for not doing as yet; I will put you to death, then, when there shall be not one person possible to be found so wicked, so abandoned, so like yourself, as not to allow that it has been rightly done. As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, you shall live ; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes...
Page 94 - Lives ! aye, he comes even into the senate. He takes a part in the public deliberations ; he is watching and marking down and checking off for slaughter every individual among us. And we, gallant \ men that we are, think that we are doing our duty to the republic if we keep out of the way of his frenzied attacks. You ought, O Catiline, long ago to have been led to execution by command of the consul That destruction which you have been long^ plotting against us ought to have already fallen on your...
Page 100 - I defended myself not with a public guard, but by my own private diligence. When, in the next consular comitia, you wished to slay me when I was actually consul, and your competitors also, in the Campus Martius, I checked your nefarious attempt by the assistance and resources of my own friends, without exciting any disturbance publicly. In short, as often as you attacked me, I by myself opposed you, and that, too, though I saw that my ruin was connected with great disaster to the republic. But now...
Page 112 - Catiline, begone to your impious and nefarious war, to the great safety of the republic, to your own misfortune and injury, and to the destruction of those who have joined themselves to you in every wickedness and atrocity. Then do you...
Page 106 - ... whose very hands and weapons I have for some time been scarcely able to keep off from you; but those, too, I will easily bring to attend you to the gates if you leave these places you have been long desiring to lay waste. And yet, why am I speaking? that anything may change your purpose? that you may ever amend your life? that you may meditate flight or think of voluntary banishment? I wish the gods may give you such a mind; though I see, if alarmed at my words you bring your mind to go into...
Page 98 - Scythedealers' street, to the house of Marcus Lecca; that many of your accomplices in the same insanity and wickedness came there too. Do you dare to deny it? Why are you silent? I will prove it if you do deny it; for I see here in the Senate some men who were there with you. O ye immortal Gods, where on earth are we? in what city are we living? what constitution is ours? There are here — here in our body, O conscript fathers, in this the most holy and dignified assembly of the whole world, men...
Page 17 - ... might be passed or repealed here." Our ancestors thought it not proper that women should perform any, even private business, without a director; but that they should be ever under the control of parents, brothers, or hus16 bands.
Page 95 - Mselius when plotting a revolution in the state. There was — there was once such virtue in this republic, that brave men would repress mischievous citizens with severer chastisement than the most bitter enemy. For we have a resolution of the senate, a formidable and authoritative decree against you, O Catiline ; the wisdom of the republic is not at fault, nor the dignity of this senatorial body. We, we alone — I say it openly — we, the consuls, are wanting in our duty.
Page 21 - I make a figure, distinguished with gold and purple? Why is the poverty of others concealed under this cover of a law, so that it should be thought that, if the law permitted, they would have such things as they are not now able to procure? Romans, do you wish to excite among your wives an emulation of this sort, that the rich should wish to have what no other can have; and that the poor, lest they should be despised as such, should extend their expenses beyond their means?
Page 111 - But I know that if he arrives at the camp of Manlius, to which he is going, there will be no one so stupid as not to see that there has been a conspiracy, no one so hardened as not to confess it. But if this man alone were put to death, I know that this disease of the republic would be only checked for a while, not eradicated forever. But if he banishes himself, and takes with him all his friends, and collects at one point all the ruined men from every quarter, then not only will this full-grown...