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Select Orations Together With the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship, Tr. by Dr. Mckay
Select Orations Together With the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship Tr by Dr Mckay Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE SECOND ORATION OF CICERO AGAINST LUCIUS CATILINE. I. At length and at last, Romans, we have either cast out of the city, or permitted to escape, or escorted with our valedictions, as he made a voluntary exit, L. Catiline, intoxicated with audacity, breathing forth wickedness, atrociously plotting ruin against his country, threatening you and this city with fire and sword. He is gone, has departed, has escaped, has broken away. No mischief shall now be prepared by that monster and that prodigy within the city walls against those walls themselves. And we have, without doubt, quelled at least that one leader of this civil war. That dagger will not now be employed in aiming at our sides; neither in the plain [of Mars], nor in the Forum, nor in the Senate, nor, lastly, within the walls of our houses, shall we have it for a dread. He has been dislodged from his post, the moment he was driven from the city. We shall now openly wage a regular war with the enemy, and none to hinder. Without question we ruined the man, and gloriously conquered, when we forced him from secret plots into open rebellion. But with what anguish, then, do you imagine he was cast down and dashed prostrate, that he did not, as he wished, carry off his poniard bathed in gore, that he departed and we alive, that we wrested the dagger from his hands, that he left the citizens safe and the city undemolished. Now he lies prostrate, Romans, and feels himself discomfited and scorned; and often truly turns back his eyes upon this city, which he grieves at being snatched from his jaws; which indeed seems to be full of joy that it has disgor...« less