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O bellum magno opere pertimescendum, cum hanc sit
habiturus Catilina scortorum cohortem praetoriam! instruite
nunc, Quirites, contra has tam praeclaras Catilinae
copias vestra praesidia vestrosque exercitus. et primum
gladiatori illi confecto et saucio consules imperatoresque
vestros opponite; deinde contra illam naufragorum eiectam
ac debilitatam manum florem totius Italiae ac robur educite.
iam vero urbes1 coloniarum ac municipiorum respondebunt
Catilinae tumulis silvestribus. neque ego ceteras copias,
ornamenta, praesidia vestra cum illius latronis inopia atque
egestate conferre debeo.
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1 urbes vires Muretus: arces Garatoni
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