Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Speeches against Catilina
=tandem= often strengthens interrogatives. 'How long, pray?' or 'How long, I ask?' Cf. 1. 16 'quo tandem animo hoc tibi ferendum putas?' and 2. 2 'quanto tandem maerore?' So also with imperatives, as in 1. 8 'Recognosce tandem.'