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And since all this has
been displayed in the senate, and made manifest, and detected by me, I will now explain it
briefly, that you, O citizens, that are as yet ignorant of it, and are in suspense, may be
able to see how great the danger was, how evident and by what means it was detected and
arrested. First of all, since Catiline, a few days ago, burst out of the city, when he had
left behind the companions of his wickedness, the active leaders of this infamous war, I have
continually watched and taken care, O Romans, of the means by which we might be safe amid
such great and such carefully concealed treachery.
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