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But there are men, O Romans, who say that Catiline has been driven by me into banishment.
But if I could do so by a word, I would drive out those also who say so. Forsooth, that
timid, that excessively bashful man could not bear the voice of the consul; as soon as he was
ordered to go into banishment, he obeyed, he was quiet. Yesterday, when I had been all but
murdered at my own house, I convoked the senate in the temple of Jupiter Stator; I related
the whole affair to the conscript fathers; and when Catiline came thither, what senator
addressed him? who saluted him? who looked upon him not so much even as an abandoned citizen,
as an implacable enemy? Nay the chiefs of that body left that part of the benches to which he
came naked and empty.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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