Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 18 (salic, caius, flewellen, coronel, mamon, crimes…). Matches are highlighted.
thence all mercy: Report it to the Senate. Hear: The Gods Grow angry with your patience. " 'Tis their care, " And must be yours, that guilty men escape not. " As crimes do grow, Justice should rouse it self. To Catiline, and his: But, to joust men, Though Heaven should speak, with all his wrath at once, That, with his breath, the
Full speech
Nothing in thee, licentious Catiline: Halters, and racks cannot express from thee More, then thy deeds. 'Tis only judgement waits thee. Rash Cethegus, no. It wrong with Room, when Catiline and thou Do threat, if Cato feared. You hear this, Romans. You talk to much to them, Marcus, They'are lost. Go forth, and apprehend them. Quintus, what guards have you? Call the Tribunes aid And raise the City. Consul, you are too mild, " The foulness of some facts takes thence all mercy: Report it to the Senate. Hear: The Gods Grow angry with your patience. " 'Tis their care, " And must be yours, that guilty men escape not. " As crimes do grow, Justice should rouse it self. To Catiline, and his: But, to joust men, Though Heaven should speak, with all his wrath at once, That, with his breath, the hinges of the world Did crack; we should stand upright, and unfeared. Peace lewd Traitor, Or wash thy mouth. He is and honest man And loves his Country; would thou didst so, too. No, Thou art too impudent. Thou innocent? So are the Furies. Except he were of the same meal, and batch. Yes, I, and Quintus Catulus can affirm it. His eloquence hath more deserved to day, Speaking thy ill, then all thy ancestors Did, in their good: And that the State will find, Which he hath saved. Traitor. Peace, thou prodigy. Out, of the Court, with the pernicious traitor. Stop, Stop that portentous mouth. Will none restrain the Monster? Still, dost thou murmur, Monster? What says the Fiend? Sing out Scrich-owle. Commit the care thereof unto the Consuls. Yet, Marcus Tullius, do not I believe, But Crassus, and this Caesar here ring hollow. Why dare we not? What honest act is that, The Roman Senate should not dare, and do? In prove your counsel. Good Marcus Tullius (which is more, then great) Thou hadst thy education, with the Gods. Look there.
Plot summary
Plot — Catiline His Conspiracy
Piqued at his rejection for a military command, Catiline has assembled a group of ambitious and malcontented men, and plans to take over the Roman state: some ~ are motivated by envy of those in authority, and by the prospect of wealth, power, and the opportunity for unlimited self-indulgence; another, Lentulus, believes that a prophecy has named him as a future ruler of Rome — an interpretation commissioned by Catiline himself. At a clandestine meeting, the conspirators drink blood to mark their commitment to the plot. Meanwhile Aurelia recruits a network of powerful women supporters. Curius visits his mistress Fulvia, whose resistance to his advances provokes a rape attempt. He excites her curiosity and she wheedles details of the conspiracy out of him. Catiline stands in the consular election, but is defeated by Cicero. When Cicero speaks of the need to protect the Roman state, Caesar and Crassus suspect that he may secure his position by manufacturing a threat for himself to overcome; they set the other consul, Antonius, to keep an eye on him, but Cicero turns him by bribery. Upset that Sempronia has been given pre-eminence in the conspiracy, Fulvia leaks to Cicero what she knows about it; Cicero confronts Curius with the information and recruits him as a double agent inside the plot. The conspirators plan to burn the city, having first assassinated Cicero; the plot is secretly backed by Crassus and Caesar. Curius sends Fulvia to warn Cicero of the attempt on his life, and he makes arrangements for his own security: the would-be killers are unable to gain access to his house. Alarmed at the prospect of civil unrest, people flee from Rome. Cicero exposes the plot in an extended address to the Senate. Catiline protests his innocence, but is forced out of the Senate, and leaves Rome to muster his forces. Lentulus has treated with the ambassadors of the Allobroges, a discontented neighbouring tribe seeking redress from the Senate. These dealings are relayed to Cicero, who persuades the Allobroges to procure letters from the conspirators, which will provide documentary evidence of the plot. When they leave Rome, the Allobroges are arrested as arranged, and deliver up the letters; their escort, Volturcius, offers information in exchange for his life. Seeing that the conspiracy is doomed, Crassus and Caesar quietly withdraw their support. Cicero presents his evidence to the Senate, but refuses to consider allegations implicating Caesar and Crassus. The…