Cicero 1.1 Flashcards
“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience?
Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?
How long is that madness of yours still to mock us?
Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?
When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?
Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora vultusque moverunt?
Do not the nightly guards placed on the Palatine Hill—do not the watches posted throughout the city—does not the alarm of the people, and the union of all good men—does not the precaution taken of assembling the senate in this most defensible place—do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present, have any effect upon you?
Patere tua consilia non sentis?
Do you not feel that your plans are detected?
Constrictam iam horum omnium scientia teneri coniurationem tuam non vides?
Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which every one here possesses of it?
Quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consili ceperis, quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris?
What is there that you did last night, what the night before— where is it that you were—who was there that you summoned to meet you—what design was there which was adopted by you, with which you think that any one of us is unacquainted?
