Sed ubi ille adsedit, Catilina, ut erat paratus ad dissimulanda omnia, demisso voltu, voce supplici postulare a patribus coepit ne quid de se temere crederent; ea familia ortum, ita se ab adulescentia vitam instituisse, ut omnia bona in spe haberet; ne existumarent sibi, patricio homini, quoius ipsius atque maiorum pluruma beneficia in plebem Romanam essent, perdita re publica opus esse, quom eam servaret M. Tullius, inquilinus civis urbis Romae
When Cicero took his seat, Catiline, prepared as he was to conceal all his guilt, with downcast eyes and pleading voice began to beg the senators not to believe rashly anything concerning him; he was sprung from such a family, he said, and had so ordered his life from youth up, that he had nothing but the best prospects; they must not suppose that he, a patrician, who like his forefathers had rendered a great many good services to the commons of Rome, had any need for the overthrow of the government, while its savior was Marcus Tullius, a resident alien in the city of Rome.
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