Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
1: _quousque--nostra?_ “How far, then, Catiline, will you trample upon our patience?” The abrupt opening of the speech shows the feelings of the orator whose indignation was naturally aroused when the conspirator dared to appear in the Senate after being declared a public enem...
1: _jamdiu_: for the space of three years from the consulate of Lepidus and Tullus, 66 B.C.; _nescio quo pacto_: “in some way or other”: literally, “I know not on what terms”: c...
1. CHAPTER I.1: _quousque--nostra?_ “How far, then, Catiline, will you trample upon our patience?” The abrupt opening of the speech shows the feelings of the orator whose indignation was nat...
6. CHAPTER VI.8: _quae--est?_ “what stain of domestic infamy has not been branded on your life?” Distinguish: _nŏtă, nōtă, nŏtā_. The expression _nota domesticae turpitudinis_ differs in mean...
4. CHAPTER IV.7: _noctem illam superiorem_: “the events on the night preceding the last:” i.e., the events on the night of the 6th November, when the meeting was held at the house of M. Porci...
2. CHAPTER II.1: _quondam_: 121 B.C.: see _C. Gracchus_, in Proper Names. In a decree of this kind both consuls were named. The other, Q. Fabius, was at that time in that part of Gaul known a...
5. CHAPTER V._desiderant_: “feel the loss of.” _desiderare_, to feel the loss of an object of love or sympathy: hence “to yearn after;” _requirere_: to feel the loss of a thing, as an act of...
7. CHAPTER VII.8: _frequentia_: “throng,”: cp. _frequens senatus_: “a crowded senate,”: --_necessarii_: cp. ἀναγκαῖοι. --_salutavit_: among the Romans it was customary when they saw their frie...
3. CHAPTER III.9: _parietibus_: abl. means. Distinguish _moenia_ (root _mun_, to defend: cp. ἀμύνειν), the walls of a city for defensive purposes: _murus_ (= _mun-rus_), any kind of wall: _par...
8. CHAPTER VIII.3: _custodiam_: when a person of rank was suspected of any treasonable act, he generally surrendered himself into the hands of some responsible person, to be guarded until his g...
9. CHAPTER IX.5: _quanta--impendeat_: “what a storm of unpopularity threatens me, if not at present, on account of the memory of your crimes being fresh, still in the future time.” --_recenti...
11. CHAPTER XI.4: _detester ac deprecer_: both these words mean “to seek to remove anything from one, such as blame, &c., by calling the gods to witness (_testari deos_) and by imploring (_pre...
10. CHAPTER X.4: _non modo_, for the omission of _non_ after _non modo_, see Madvig., § 461, C. When the sentence is negative, _non modo = non modo non_, the second _non_ being omitted, if bo...
12. CHAPTER XII.2: _qui--dissimulent_: “of such a character that they either are blind to those evils which threaten us, or profess blindness in regard to the things they see.” _Qui_ = _tales u...