Cicero 1.5

Question 1

castra sunt in Italiacontra populum Romanum in Etruriae faucibusconlocata, crescit in dies singulos hostiumnumerus;

Answer 1

A camp is pitched in Italy, at the entrance of Etruria, in hostility to the republic; the number of the enemy increases every day;

Question 2

eorum autem castrorum imperatorem ducemque hostium intra moenia atque adeo insenatu videtis10 intestinam aliquam cotidieperniciem rei publicae molientem.

Answer 2

and yet the general of that camp, the leader of those enemies, we see within the walls—yes, and even in the senate, —planning every day some internal injury to the republic.

Question 3

si te iam11, Catilina, comprehendi, si interfici iussero, credo, erit verendum mihi ne non hoc potiusomnes boni serius a me quam quisquam crudelius factum esse dicat.

Answer 3

1 If, O Catiline, I should now order you to be arrested, to be put to death, I should, I suppose, have to fear lest all good men should say that I had acted tardily, rather than that any one should affirm that I acted cruelly.

Question 4

verum ego hocquod iam pridem factum esse oportuit certa decausa nondum adducor ut faciam.

Answer 4

But yet this, which ought to have been done long since, I have good reason for not doing as yet;

Question 5

tum denique interficiere12, cum iam nemo tam improbus, tam perditus13, tam tui similis inveniri poteritqui id non iure factum esse fateatur.

Answer 5

I will put you to death, then, when there shall be not one person possible to be found so wicked, so abandoned, so like yourself, as not to allow that it has been rightly done.