SALLUSTII CATILINA

CHAPTER 22

Chapter 1 ||| Chapter 2 ||| Chapter 3 ||| Chapter 4 ||| Chapter 5 ||| Chapter 6 ||| Chapter 7 ||| Chapter 8 ||| Chapter 9 ||| Chapter 10
Chapter 11 ||| Chapter 12 ||| Chapter 13 ||| Chapter 14 ||| Chapter 15 ||| Chapter 16 ||| Chapter 17 ||| Chapter 18 ||| Chapter 19 ||| Chapter 20
Chapter 21 ||| Chapter 22 ||| Chapter 23 ||| Chapter 24 ||| Chapter 25 ||| Chapter 26 ||| ||| ||| |||



Nae ista mansuetudo et misericordia vertet in

Truly that mildness and mercy will turn into

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miseriam vobis, si illi ceperint arma. Soilicet,

ruin to you, if they shall have taken arms. Forsooth

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res ipsa est aspera, sed vos timetis non

the thing itself is harsh [dangerous], but you fear not

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eam! Immo, vero maxume; sed expectantes, alius alium,

It! Nay, Indeed very-much, but awaiting, one another,

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cunctemini inertia et mollitia. animi,

you hesitate from indolence and effeminacy of mind.

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videlicet confisi immortalibus diis, qui saepe servavere

Indeed trusting to the immortal gods, who often have preserved

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hanc rempublicam in maxumis periculis. Auxilia

this republic in the greatest dangers. The help

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deorum parantur non votis, neque muliebribus

of the gods are procured not by vows, nor womanish

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suppliciis; omnia cedunt prospere vigi­lando,

supplications; all (things) yieId (ooour) prosperously by watching,

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agendo, consulendo bene. Implores

by acting, by consulting, well. You may implore

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deos nequicquam, ubi tradideris (perf. sub.)

the gods in-vain, when you may have delivered

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to socordiae atque ignaviae: sunt

you to heartlessness (slothfulness) and indolence: they are

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irati que infesti. Apud nostros majores Aulus

angry and hostile. Among our ancestors Aulus

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Manlius Torquatus jussit filium necari

Manlius Torquatus ordered (his) son to be put-to-death

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Gallico bello, quod is pugnaverat in hostem

in the Gallio war, because he had fought against an enemy

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contra imperium: atque ille egregius adolescens dedit

againet order: and that excellent young-man gave

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poenas morte immoderatae fortitudinis.

(suffered) punishments by death of (for his) excessive bravery

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Vos-cunctamini, quid statuatis de crudelissumis

Do you-hesitate, what you may resolve concerning the most-cruel

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parricidis? Videlicet caetera vita eorum obstat

parricides? Indeed the rest (former) life of them opposes (excuses)

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huic sceleri! Verum parcite dignitati Lentuli,

to this wickedness! But spare to the dignity of Lentulus,

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si ipse pepercit unquam pudicitiae, si suae famae,

if he has spared ever to chastity, if to his-own character,

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si ullis diis aut hominibus. Ignoscite adolescentiae

If to any gods or to men. Pardon to the youth

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Cethegi, nisi fecit jam iterum bellum

of Cethegus, unless he has made already again war (against his)

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patriae. Nam quid ego-loquar de Gabinio, Statilio,

country. For what shall-I-speak of Gabinius, Statilio,

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Caepario, quibus si quidquam pensi fuisset

Caeparius, to whom if any of consideration might have been

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(plup. sub.) unquam, habuissent non

(had been) ever, they might have held not (had not held)

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ea consilia de republica ?

those counsels concerning the republic? [Who if they ever had any

recollection, would not have entertained those designs against the republic.]

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Postremo, conscripti patres, si locus esset

Lastly, conscript fathers, if place might be (if there were room)

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peccato, mehercule, facile-paterer vos corrigi

for error, [by Hercules,] I would easily suffer you to be corrected

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re ipsa, quoniam contemnitis verba. Sed

by the thing itself, since you despise words. But

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sumus circumventi undique: Catilina urget

we are beset on-every-side: Catline presses to (our)

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faucibus cum exercitu: alii hostes sunt intra

jaws (closely) with an army: other enemies are within

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moenis, atque in sinu urbis. Neque potest

the walls, and in the bosom of the city. Neither can

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quidquam parari neque consuli occulte: quo

any (thing) be prepared nor be consulted secretly: therefore

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est properandum magis.

it is to-be-hastened the more. [Therefore speedy action is required.]

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Quare ego ita censeo. Cum respublica venerit

Therefore I thus determine. Since the republic may have come (has come)

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(per. sub.) in maxuma pericula nefario consilio

into the greatest dangers by the horrible counsels

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sceleratorum civium; que hi convicti-sint (perf. sub.)

of wicked citizens; and these may have been convicted by the

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indicio Titi Vulturcii, et legatorum Allobrogum,

information of Titus Vuturcius, and of the ambassadors of the Allobroges,

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que confessi-(sint) (perf. sub.) paravisse

and may have confessed to have prepared

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caedem, incendia, que alia foeda atque crudelia

murder, burnings, and other abominable and cruel

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facinora in civis (cives) que patriam;

crimes against (their) citizens and ceountry; (that)

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supplicium sumendum, more majorum, de

punishment be-taken, by the custom of (our) ancestors, of (on those)

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confessis, sicuti de manifestis

having confessed, as of (those) manifest (clearly convicted)

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capitalium rerum."

of capital things (crimes)."

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Postquam Cato assedit, omnes consulares,

Alter Cato sat-down, all the consular (men),

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que item magna pars senatas, landant sententiam

and also a great part of the senate, praise the opinion

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ejus; ferunt virtutem animi ad coelum:

of him; bear (extol) the virtue of (his) mind to heaven:

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alii increpantes vocant alios timidos: Cato habetur

others chiding call others fearful: Cato is had

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clarus atque magnus: decretum senati

(accounted) renowned and great: a decree of the senate

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fit, sicut ille censuerat. Sed forte lubuit

is made, as he had determined. But by chance it has pleased

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mihi, legenti multa, andienti multa praeclars facinora,

to me, reading many, hearing many illustrious exploits,

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quae Romanus populus fecit domi que militiae,

which the Roman people has done at-home and at war

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mari atque terra, attendere, quae res

(abroad), by sea and by land, to consider, what thing

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sustinuisset maxume tanta negotia. Sciebam

might have sustained chiefly so-great affair. I did know (them)

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saepenumero contendisse parva manu cum

oftentimes to have contended with a small band with

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magnis legionibus hostium: cognoveram bella gesta

great legions of enemies: I have known wars carried-on [by them]

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parvis copiis cum opulentis regibus:

with small forces with opulent (powerful) kings:

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ad hoc saepe toleravisse

add to this [that they] often to have borne [have sustained]

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violentiam fortunae: Graecos fuisse ante

the violence of fortune: [that] the Greeks to have been [were] before

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Romanos facundia, Gallos gloria belli. Ac

the Romans in eloquence, the Gauls in the glory of war. And

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constabat mihi, agitanti multa egregiam

it was evident to me, discussing many (things), [that] the singular

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virtutem paucorum civium patravisse cuncta;

virtue of a few citizen to have performed [performed] all (things);

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que factum eo, uti paupertas

and (it was) done (came to pass) by that, that poverty

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superaret (imp. sub.) divitias, paucitas multitudinem.

might overcome (overcame) riches, fewness multitude.