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On this I, that violent consul, who drive citizens into
exile by a word, asked of Catiline whether he had been at the nocturnal meeting at Marcus
Lecca's, or not; when that most audacious man, convicted by his own conscience, was at first
silent. I related all the other circumstances; I described what he had done that night, where
he had been, what he had arranged for the next night, how the plan of the whole war had been
laid down by him. When he hesitated, when he was convicted, I asked why he hesitated to go
whither he had been long been preparing to go; when I knew that arms, that the axes, the
fasces, and trumpets, and military standards, and that silver
eagle to which he had made a shrine in his own house, had been sent on?
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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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