J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., Third Oration Against Catiline: III. How the Conspiracy was Suppressed. (In L. Catilinam Oratio III.) Before the People, DEC. 3., chapter 3

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machinatorem: Gabinius had been the go-between in this case; he and Statilius were to burn the city (Sall. Cat. 43, 44).

venit: of course he had been summoned like the others.

praeter, etc., since Lentulus was notoriously lazy.

viris, dat. after placeret, which has for subject litteras . . . aperiri, etc.

deferrem, integral part of aperiri; otherwise it would probably be defers; see § 551, c (327, a); cf. 'B. 291, I ; G. 574; H. 605, 2 (520); H-B. 571,507, 4, a.

esse facturum governs the result clause ut . . . deferrem: we may translate, I said I would not fail to lay before the public council a matter touching the public danger before it had been tampered with (integram).

etenim . . . si, for if you see.

reperta . . . essent: in dir. disc. this would be reperta erunt.

The Conspirators before the Senate. Evidence of Volturcius and the Allobroges. The letters produced. Confession of the conspirators.

si quid. . . esset, whatever weapons there might be.

Select Orations of. Cicero. Allen and Greenough's Edition. Revised by J. B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge, with a special vocabulary by J. B. Greenough.

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