RHETOR 103A Chapter 1: R103A Reading Cicero, Against Cataline
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Speech addressed to catiline in the senate. Catiline has plotted, multiple times, against senators, consul, and the well being. Persuading catiline to take his followers and go into exile of rome in general. Not able to eradicate other evil co-conspirators. Exile would be delightful for catiline: spend time with his own kind. Roman had raised him into public service, he should pay it back by doing what is right. Senators assent with silence; no need to call a spoken decree. Proof that he met in laeca"s house to make plans. Rome does not give catiline any more pleasure: every person hates and. Cicero is one step ahead of him fears him. Own country is his parent; should respect her authority, defer to her judgment, fear her power. Metaphor of rome as a body and catiline as a disease. Catiline is cancer: spreading because of his army of followers.
