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O happy
republic, if it can cast forth these dregs of the republic! Even now, when Catiline alone is
got rid of; the republic seems to me relieved and refreshed; for what evil or wickedness can
be devised or imagined which he did not conceive? What prisoner, what gladiator, what thief;
what assassin, what parricide, what forger of wills, what cheat, what debauchee, what
spendthrift, what adulterer, what abandoned woman, what corrupter of youth, what profligate,
what scoundrel can be found in all Italy, who does not avow that he has been on terms of
intimacy with Catiline? What murder has been committed for years without him? What nefarious
act of infamy that has not been done by him?
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