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And do you not see, O judges, what other evil there is added to these evils? I am addressing
you,—you, O Cato. Do you not foresee a storm in your year of office? for in
yesterday's assembly there thundered out the mischievous voice of a tribune 1 elect one of your own
colleagues; against whom your own mind took many precautions, and so too did all good men,
when they invited you to stand for the tribuneship. Everything which has been plotted for the
last three years, from the time when you know that the design of massacring the senate was
first formed by Lucius Catiline and by Cnaeus Piso, is now breaking out on these days, in
these months, at this time.
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1 He means Quintus Metellus Nepos, the same man who afterwards prevented his making an address to the people on his resigning his consulship.
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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