Cicero 1.11

Question 1

Magna dis immortalibushabenda est atque huic ipsi Iovi Statori, antiquissimo custodi huius urbis, gratia, quodhanc tam taetram, tam horribilem3 tamqueinfestam rei publicae pestem totiens iameffugimus.

Answer 1

Great thanks are due to the immortal gods, and to this very Jupiter Stator, in whose temple we are, the most ancient protector of thus city, that we have already so often escaped so foul, so horrible, and so deadly an enemy to the republic.

Question 2

non est saepius in uno hominesumma salus periclitanda rei publicae.

Answer 2

But the safety of the commonwealth must not be too often allowed to be risked on one man.

Question 3

quamdiu mihi consuli designato, Catilina, insidiatuses, non publico me praesidio, sed privatadiligentia defendi.

Answer 3

As long as you, O Catiline, plotted against me while I was the consul elect, I defended myself not with a public guard, but by my own private diligence.

Question 4

Cum proximis comitiisconsularibus me consulem in campo etcompetitores tuos interficere voluisti, compressiconatus tuos nefarios amicorum praesidio etcopiis nullo tumultu publice concitato;

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

denique, quotienscumque me petisti, per me tibi obstiti, quamquam videbam perniciem meam cummagna calamitate rei publicae esse coniunctam.

Answer 5

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.