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Life of Cicero

CHAPTER IX
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The feeling was so strong that on the next morning he found himself compelled to address the people on the subject.

Then was uttered the second Catiline oration, which was spoken in the open air to the citizens at large.

Here too there are words, among those with which he began his speech, almost as familiar to us as the "Quousque tandem"-- "Abiit; excessit; evasit; erupit!" This Catiline, says Cicero, this pest of his country, raging in his madness, I have turned out of the city.

If you like it better, I have expelled him by my very words.

"He has departed.


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