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With these omens, O Catiline, be gone to your impious and nefarious war, to the great
safety of the republic, to your own misfortune and injury, and to the destruction of those
who have joined themselves to you in every wickedness and atrocity. Then do you, O Jupiter,
who were consecrated by Romulus with the same auspices as this city, whom we rightly call the
stay of this city and empire, repel this man and his companions from your altars and from the
other temples,—from the houses and walls of the city,—from the lives and
fortunes of all the citizens; and overwhelm all the enemies of good men, the foes of the
republic, the robbers of Italy, men bound together by a treaty and infamous alliance of
crimes, dead and alive, with eternal punishments.
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