Sunday, August 06, 2023
Plotting Our Destruction
Cicero, Against Catiline 1.4.9 (tr. C. Macdonald):
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In heaven's name! Where in the world are we? What State is ours? What city are we living in? Here, gentlemen, here in our very midst, in this, the most sacred and important council in the world, there are men whose plans extend beyond the death of us all and the destruction of this city to that of the whole world.
o di immortales! ubinam gentium sumus? quam rem publicam habemus? in qua urbe vivimus? hic, hic sunt in nostro numero, patres conscripti, in hoc orbis terrae sanctissimo gravissimoque consilio, qui de nostro omnium interitu, qui de huius urbis atque adeo de orbis terrarum exitio cogitent.
