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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero Annotator : John Henderson Release date : March 31, 2008 [eBook #24967] Most recently updated: January 3, 2021 Language : Latin Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24967 Credits : Produced by Louise Hope, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. *** START OF First, make sure that the browser’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browser’s default font. Typographical errors have been marked in the text with mouse-hover popups . The shift from “Antony” (“Life of Cicero” section) to “Antonius” (remainder of the book) is unchanged. Date format has been regularized to “(year) B.C.”; in the original, about a quarter of the dates were in the reversed form “B.C. (year)”. A few cases of “scil,” with comma have been silently changed to “scil.” Four occurrences of “æ”—three of them on the same page—have been regularized to “ae”. Missing footnote anchors have been supplied or restored; they are marked N like this without further annotation. All links from the Oration lead to Notes; all links in the Notes—except obvious cross-references to other Notes—lead back to the Oration. This e-text includes a second, “stripped-down” text of the Oration, retaining correction popups but with all links to Notes removed. Contents (added by transcriber) Preface Cicero: I. Life of Cicero II. Life of Catiline III. Chronology of the Conspiracy IV. Summary of first oration FIRST ORATION (linked to notes) Notes Proper Names Vocabulary FIRST ORATION (free-standing) Classical Text-Book Series FIRST ORATION OF CICERO AGAINST CATILINE WITH NOTICES, NOTES AND COMPLETE VOCABULARY. BY JOHN HENDERSON, M.A. TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED, Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, by THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, Limited , Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. PREFACE. It has been the aim of the Editor to explain what seemed to him difficulties in the text. There are many points which might have been noted, but which a judicious teacher will supply in the ordinary class work. References are made to the standard grammars of Zumpt, Madvig, Harkness, Allen and Greenough. TOP LIFE OF CICERO. I. Birth. Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest name in Roman literature, was born near Arpinum, a town of Latium, January 3rd, B.C. 106. His father, a man of large views and liberal culture, belonged to the equites , and possessed an hereditary estate in the neighbourhood of the town. To give his sons, Marcus and Quintus, that education which could not be obtained at a provincial school, Removes to Rome, B.C. 92. he removed to Rome, where the young Ciceros were placed under the best teachers of the day. Early teachers. From Aelius they learned philosophy; from Archias, the mechanism of verse, though not the inspiration of poetry. Early works. A translation of the Phaenomena and Prognostics of Aratus, and a mythological poem on the fable of Pontius Glaucus were the first fruits of Cicero’s genius. Assumes the toga virilis B.C. 89. On assuming the toga virilis , B.C. 89, Cicero attached himself to the jurist Scaevola, who was then in the zenith of his fame. Serves his first campaign, B.C. 88. In the following year he served a brief campaign in the Social War under Cn. Pompeius Strabo, the father of Pompey the Great. Studies philosophy. Philosophical studies had, however, more attractions for him than arms. Under Philo, the Academic, and Diodotus, the Stoic, he laid the foundation of that Eclecticism which is so observable in his philosophical works. Pleads his first cause pro Quinct. At the age of 25 he pleaded his first cause, and in the following year he defended Sextus Roscius of Ameria, who had been accused of parricide by Chrysogonus, one of Sulla’s favourites. In this cause he acquired the acquittal of his client, but incurred the enmity of the dictator. Goes to Athens, Asia, and Rhodes. With the ostensible object of regaining his health he went to Athens, where he studied philosophy under Antiochus, the Academic, and under Zeno and Phaedrus, both Epicureans. From Athens he travelled through Asia Minor and finally settled for a short time at Rhodes, attending there the lectures of Molo, the rhetorician . Returns home. Returning home, he at once entered on that political career to which his commanding ability destined him, Elected quaestor of Sicily. and was elected quaestor of Sicily. During his term of office he so endeared himself to the inhabitants of the island by his integrity that they selected him as their patron at Rome. Indicts Verres, B.C. 70. In their behalf he subsequently conducted the prosecution against Verres, who was charged with extortion. Elected aedile, 69 B.C. His success in this cause, and his consequent popularity, procured him the office of curule aedile . Praetor, 66 B.C. After the usual interval he was chosen praetor , and, while holding this office, His first political speech. delivered the first of his political harangues, Pro lege Manilia, 65 B.C. in defence of the bill proposed by C. Manilius to invest Pompey with supreme command in the Mithradatic War. Consul, 63 B.C. Two years afterwards he gained the consulship , the goal of his ambition. His consulate is memorable for the bold attempt of Catiline to subvert the government—an attempt which was frustrated by the patriotic zeal of the consul. Unpopularity of Cicero. Cicero had quickly soared to the pinnacle of fame: as quickly did he fall. In crushing the conspiracy of Catiline questionable means