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Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul
sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives! aye, he comes even into the senate. He takes a part
in the public deliberations; he is watching and marking down and checking off for slaughter
every individual among us. And we, gallant men that we are, think that we are doing our duty
to the republic if we keep out of the way of his frenzied attacks.
You ought, O Catiline, long ago to have been led to execution by command of the consul.
That destruction which you have been long plotting against us ought to have already fallen on
your own head.
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