. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. sent,have any effect upon you ? Do you not feel that your plansare detected ? Do you not see that your conspiracy is alreadyarrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which everyone here possesses of it? What is there that you did lastnight, what the night before — where is it that you Avere — whowas there that you summoned to meet you — what design wasthere which was adopted by you, with which you th
. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. sent,have any effect upon you ? Do you not feel that your plansare detected ? Do you not see that your conspiracy is alreadyarrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which everyone here possesses of it? What is there that you did lastnight, what the night before — where is it that you Avere — whowas there that you summoned to meet you — what design wasthere which was adopted by you, with which you think thatany one of us is unacquainted? Shame on the age and on its principles ! The senate isaware of these things ; the consul sees them ; and yet this manlives. Lives! ay, he comes even into the senate. He takes apart in the public deliberations; he is watching and markingdown and checking off for slaughter every individual among we, gallant men that we are, think that we are doing ourduty to the republic if we keep out of the way of his frenziedattacks. You ought, O Catiline, long ago to have been led to execu-tion by command of the consul. That destruction which you. CICERO CICEROS SPEECH ON CATILIN \SHKACY. have been long plotting against us ought to have already fallen on your own head. What. Did not that most illustrious man, Iuhlius Scipio,Pontifez Maximus. in his capacity of a private citizen, put to death Tiberius Gracchus, though but slightly undermining the constitution/ And shall we. who are the consuls, tolerateCatiline, openly desirous to destroy the whole world with fireand slaughter/ For I pass over older instances, such as howCains Servilius Ahala with his own hand slew Spurius Meliuswhen plotting a revolution in the state. There was — there•nee such virtue in this republic, that brave men wouldrepress mischievous citizens with severer chastisement than themost bitter enemy. For we have a resolution of the senate aformidable and authoritative
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