1.
Catiline is gone. He ought to have been put to death: but the time was not ripe, for all were not convinced of his guilt.
ejecimus, expelled (with violence); emisimus, let [him] go. The words vel . . . vel (or, if you like) imply that the same act may be called by either name. ipsum, of his own accord. verbis prosecuti may apply as well to kind words of dismissal as to invective. abiit, simply, is gone; excessit, has retreated before the storm; evasit, has escaped by stealth; erupit, has broken forth with violence, — a climax of expression, but nearly identical in sense. moenibus (dat. following comparabitur), against, etc. atque (adding with emphasis), and so. hunc quidem, him at any rate. sine controversia, without dispute unquestionably. versabitur, will be busy. campo, foro, curia, parietes: observe the narrowing climax. loco motus est, he lost his vantage-ground: a military expression, hence the simple abl.; § 428, f (258, a, N.2); cf. B. 229, I; G. 390, 2, N.2; H. 463 (414, ii); H-B. 408, 2, a. nullo impediente, i.e. his defenders till now could screen him by forms of law. justum (if retained in the text), regular, in due form; cf. note on latrocinio, p. 109,1. I.
quod . . . extulit etc.: § 572, b (333, b); B. 331, V, a; G. 542; H. 588, i (540, iv, N.); H.-B. 594, c. cruentum (pred.), reeking with blood. vivis nobis (abl. abs.), leaving us alive. civis: acc. plur. jacet, etc., lies prostrate, etc. retorquet oculos begins the figure of a wild beast, which is continued in faucibus. profecto, no doubt. quae quidem, which really. quod . . . projecerit: see note on quod extulit, 1.9, above; for mood, see § 592,3 (341, d); B. 323; G. 541; H. 588, ii (516, ii); H.-B. 535, 2, a.
I. Pars Prima
Catiline is gone. He ought to have been put to death: but the time was not ripe, for all were not convinced of his guilt.
ejecimus, expelled (with violence); emisimus, let [him] go. The words vel . . . vel (or, if you like) imply that the same act may be called by either name. ipsum, of his own accord. verbis prosecuti may apply as well to kind words of dismissal as to invective. abiit, simply, is gone; excessit, has retreated before the storm; evasit, has escaped by stealth; erupit, has broken forth with violence, — a climax of expression, but nearly identical in sense. moenibus (dat. following comparabitur), against, etc. atque (adding with emphasis), and so. hunc quidem, him at any rate. sine controversia, without dispute unquestionably. versabitur, will be busy. campo, foro, curia, parietes: observe the narrowing climax. loco motus est, he lost his vantage-ground: a military expression, hence the simple abl.; § 428, f (258, a, N.2); cf. B. 229, I; G. 390, 2, N.2; H. 463 (414, ii); H-B. 408, 2, a. nullo impediente, i.e. his defenders till now could screen him by forms of law. justum (if retained in the text), regular, in due form; cf. note on latrocinio, p. 109,1. I.
quod . . . extulit etc.: § 572, b (333, b); B. 331, V, a; G. 542; H. 588, i (540, iv, N.); H.-B. 594, c. cruentum (pred.), reeking with blood. vivis nobis (abl. abs.), leaving us alive. civis: acc. plur. jacet, etc., lies prostrate, etc. retorquet oculos begins the figure of a wild beast, which is continued in faucibus. profecto, no doubt. quae quidem, which really. quod . . . projecerit: see note on quod extulit, 1.9, above; for mood, see § 592,3 (341, d); B. 323; G. 541; H. 588, ii (516, ii); H.-B. 535, 2, a.
