[9]
And, that you may understand the diversity of his pursuits and the variety of his designs,
there was no one in any school of gladiators, at all inclined to audacity, who does not avow
himself to be an intimate friend of Catiline,—no one on the stage, at all of a
fickle and worthless disposition, who does not profess himself his companion. And he, trained
in the practice of insult and wickedness, in enduring cold, and hunger, and thirst, and
watching, was called a brave man by those fellows, while all the appliances of industry and
instruments of virtue were devoted to lust and atrocity.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
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.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.