In Catilinam I, Oratio Prima

1. 1Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?How long, Catiline, will you go on abusing our patience?
2. 2quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?How long will that madness of yours keep mocking us?
3. 3quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?To what limit will your unchecked boldness fling itself?
4. 4Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae,Did the night guard on the Palatine do nothing to move you, nothing the watches of the city,
5. 5nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium,nothing the people's fear, nothing the rallying of every loyal citizen,
6. 6nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horumnothing this best-defended meeting place of the senate, nothing the faces
7. 7ora voltusque moverunt? Patere tua consilia non sentis,and expressions of these men? Do you not see that your plans lie exposed,
8. 8constrictam iam horum omnium scientia teneri coniurationemthat your conspiracy is already held in check by everyone's knowledge of it
9. 9tuam non vides? Quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris,do you not see? What you did last night, what the night before,
10. 10ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consilii ceperis,where you were, whom you summoned, what plan you settled on,
11. 11quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris?which of us do you suppose is unaware of it?
12. 12O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit. Consul videt;What an age, what morals! The senate understands this. The consul sees it;
13. 13hic tamen vivit. Vivit? immo vero etiam in senatum venit,yet this man is still alive. Alive? He even comes into the senate,
14. 14fit publici consilii particeps, notat et designat oculishe takes part in the public deliberation, he marks out with his eyes
15. 15ad caedem unum quemque nostrum.each one of us for slaughter.
16. 16Nos autem fortes viri satis facere rei publicae videmur,But we, brave men, seem to be doing enough for the republic,
17. 17si istius furorem ac tela vitemus. Ad mortem te,if we avoid the madness and weapons of that man. To death you,
18. 18Catilina, duci iussu consulis iam pridem oportebat,Catiline, it was fitting for you to be led to death by the consul's order long ago,
19. 19in te conferri pestem, quam tu in nos machinaris.for the plague to be brought upon you, which you have been plotting against us.
20. 20An vero vir amplissumus, P. Scipio, pontifex maximus,Did indeed a very distinguished man, Publius Scipio, the Pontifex Maximus,

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