First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline / with Notices, Notes and Complete Vocabulary
In hoc libro continetur prima Marci Tullii Ciceronis oratio in Lucium Catilinam, anno sexagesimo tertio ante Christum natum in senatu habita, cum Cicero consul esset. Catilina, vir nobilis sed perditus, coniurationem contra rem publicam paraverat, ut urbem incenderet et optimates trucidaret. Cicero, periculo cognito, coram patribus conscriptis Catilinam praesentem acerrimis verbis arguit eumque, ut Roma excederet, vehementer hortatur. Editio haec, a Ioanne Henderson curata, vitam Ciceronis et Catilinae, coniurationis ordinem, notas et plenum vocabularium continet.
Haec oratio, illo celeberrimo exordio "Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?" incipiens, inter praeclarissima eloquentiae Romanae monumenta numeratur. In ea spectantur amor patriae, libertatis defensio et perpetuum certamen inter civium concordiam et privatorum ambitionem. Discipulis linguae Latinae perutilis est, cum et orationis vim et sermonis elegantiam praebeat, et simul ostendat quanti momenti sit vigilantia in re publica tuenda.
How it begins
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