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Cicero

Catilinarian Orations Passage 7

Passage 7 of 115

Canonical reference 1.7

Latin

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meministine me ante diem xii Kalendas Novembris dicere in senatu fore in armis certo die, qui dies futurus esset ante diem vi Kal. Novembris, C. G aium Manlium, audaciae satellitem atque administrum tuae? num me fefellit, Catilina, non modo res tanta tam atrox tamque incredibilis, verum, id quod multo magis est admirandum, dies? dixi ego idem in senatu caedem te optimatium contulisse in ante diem v Kalendas Novembris, tum cum multi principes civitatis Roma non tam sui conservandi quam tuorum consiliorum reprimendorum causa profugerunt. num infitiari potes te illo ipso die meis praesidiis, mea diligentia circumclusum commovere te contra rem publicam non potuisse, cum tu discessu ceterorum nostra tamen qui remansissemus caede contentum te esse dicebas?

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Do you remember that on the twelfth day before the Kalends of November I said in the Senate that Gaius Manlius, the attendant and agent of your audacity, would be under arms on a fixed day, the sixth day before the Kalends of November? Was I mistaken, Catiline, not merely about an event so great, so dreadful, and so incredible, but, far more remarkably, about the very day? I also said in the Senate that you had appointed the fifth day before the Kalends of November for the slaughter of the leading citizens, when many of the foremost men of the state fled Rome, not so much to save themselves as to thwart your plans. Can you deny that on that very day you were so enclosed by my guards and vigilance that you could not move against the republic, although you said that, with the others gone, you would be satisfied with slaughtering those of us who remained?

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Te souviens-tu que, le douzième jour avant les calendes de novembre, j’ai déclaré au Sénat que C. Manlius, satellite et agent de ton audace, prendrait les armes à une date précise, le sixième jour avant les calendes de novembre ? Me suis-je trompé, Catilina, non seulement sur un fait si considérable, si atroce et si incroyable, mais encore, chose bien plus étonnante, sur le jour ? J’ai également déclaré au Sénat que tu avais fixé le massacre des principaux citoyens au cinquième jour avant les calendes de novembre, lorsque beaucoup de chefs de la cité s’enfuirent de Rome, moins pour assurer leur propre salut que pour réprimer tes desseins. Peux-tu nier que, ce jour même, encerclé par mes gardes et ma vigilance, tu n’as pu rien entreprendre contre la République, alors qu’au départ des autres tu disais néanmoins te contenter de nous massacrer, nous qui étions restés ?

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