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67 - Catiline II: Cicero's Moment

Cost of Glory

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Cicero's Famous Line: What Times, What Morals?

Cicero is famous for his prose rhythm, among other things. He really exploits it here and he plays up this sense of shock. The Latin is more kind of coiled up and compressed than the English. But I want to read it so you can just hear the rhythm and maybe a little bit of the energy of the original.

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