Cicero 1.2

Question 1

O tempora, o mores!

Answer 1

Shame on the age and on its principles!

Question 2

senatushaec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit.

Answer 2

The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives.

Question 3

Vivit? immo vero etiam in senatum venit, fitpublici consili particeps, notat et designat oculisad caedem unum quemque nostrum.

Answer 3

Lives! aye, he comes even into the senate. He takes a part in the public deliberations; he is watching and marking down and checking off for slaughter every individual among us.

Question 4

nos autemfortes viri satis facere rei publicae videmur, siistius furorem ac tela vitamus.

Answer 4

And we, gallant men that we are, think that we are doing our duty to the republic if we keep out of the way of his frenzied attacks.

Question 5

ad mortem te,Catilina, duci iussu consulis iam pridem oportebat,

Answer 5

You ought, O Catiline, long ago to have been led to execution by command of the consul.

Question 6

in te conferri pestem4 quam tu innos5 omnis iam diu6 machinaris.

Answer 6

That destruction which you have been long plotting against us ought to have already fallen on your own head.