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In these bands are all the gamblers, all the adulterers, all the unclean and shameless
citizens. These boys, so witty and delicate, have learnt not only to love and to be loved,
not only to sing and to dance, but also to brandish daggers and to administer poisons; and
unless they are driven out, unless they die, even should Catiline die, I warn you that the
school of Catiline would exist in the republic. But what do those wretches want? Are they
going to take their wives with them to the camp? how can they do without them, especially in
these nights? and how will they endure the Apennines, and these frosts, and this snow? unless they think that they will
bear the winter more easily because they have been in the habit of dancing naked at their
feasts. O war much to be dreaded, when Catiline is going to have his bodyguard of
prostitutes!
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