. [2.60] {2.80M}   L  #  At the beginning of spring in the same year, in Macedonia Gaius Curio set off into Dardania with all his army, so that he could by all possible means collect the money which had been demanded by Appius. Then, having forged an unnatural will, they led his son Aristonicus in triumph like an enemy, because he had tried to recover his father's realm. some one of you will say. Are these the rewards for wounds and for so often shedding our blood for our country? [1.6] {1.10M}   L  #  At the proposal of Clodius, this Cato was sent to Cyprus, to administer the estate of king Ptolemy, who had left the Roman people as his heir after his death. [5] L. Catilina, nobili genere natus, fuit magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque. [1.1] {1.1M}   L  I have composed the history of the Roman people, including both military and domestic events, starting with the year when M.Lepidus and Q.Catulus were consuls {78 B.C.}. [1.13] {1.16M}   L  From that time onwards the conduct of our ancestors declined, not slowly as previously, but like a torrent. Servilius was aware of the ferocity of the enemy, and that they had been brought to seek peace by this sudden terror, not because they were weary of war. 2 If it were possible for you to enjoy lasting peace, if no treacherous foes were near your borders, if to crush the Roman power would not bring you glorious fame, I should not venture to sue for your alliance, and it would be vain for me to hope to unite my misfortunes with your prosperity. 21 Following their usual custom, they will destroy everything or perish in the attempt . or if it is a sign of their adopted nationality. . # [After] a few days, our men became more confident than usual and there was some swaggering talk. Diese Website benutzt Cookies. Most of them are relatively short, but all the longer fragments are translated here. However while he was alive he displayed the evidence of these achievements in his appearance, with several wounds on his front including the loss of an eye. 14 What then do you advise? 11 For what else is left us? it is uncertain whether . . . 24 Because success is a wonderful screen for vices; but let a reverse come, and he will be despised as much as he is now feared. And these arms he took up in defiance of all human and divine law, not in order to avenge his own wrongs or the wrongs of those whom he pretends to represent, but to overthrow our laws and our liberty. 7 At that time, however, Lepidus was a mere brigand at the head of a few camp-followers and cut-throats, any one of whom would have sold his life for a day's wages; now he is a proconsul with military power which he did not buy, but which you gave him, with subordinates who are still bound by law to obey him; the most vicious characters of every class flock to his standard, inflamed by poverty and greed, driven on by the consciousness of their crimes, men who find repose in discord, disquiet in time of peace. [1.12] {1.12M}   L  #  When the threat from Carthage had been removed, they were free to resume their quarrels. . that if they were spared a siege, they would in a few days' time agree to enter into an alliance; previously they had hesitated whether to join him or Pompeius, because of the fluctuating peace. In this confusion, while they were all debating together anxiously, Servilius decided that the surrender would never happen, unless it was prompted by fear. . . The nearby towns of the Mutuderei and the (?) 8 Moreover, Etruria is aroused, as well as all the other smouldering fires of war; the Spanish provinces are stirred to revolt, Mithridates, who is close beside those of our tributaries from whom we still receive support, is watching for an opportunity for war; in short, for the overthrow of our empire nothing is lacking save a competent leader. 27 Yet even these privileges are denied to the country people, who are cut down in the quarrels of the great, and sent to the provinces as gifts to the magistrates. of Emporiae. Wearied with writing letters and sending envoys, I have exhausted my personal resources and even my expectations, and in the meantime for three years you have barely given me the means of meeting a year's expenses. He himself, although he believed that [the slaves had gone] far away, was still afraid [of an ambush], and [withdrew in a secure] formation, in order to double his army [with new recruits]. Neither the provinces, nor the laws, nor your country's gods tolerate you as a citizen. Read De Coniuratione Catilinae / Die Verschworung DES Catilina book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. Vol. 14 What are you waiting for, unless perhaps you are ashamed or weary of doing right? . You have given up everything in exchange for your present slothfulness, thinking that you have ample freedom because your backs are spared, and because you are allowed to go hither and thither by the grace of your rich masters. Die Verschwörung des Catilina [2.76] {2.93M}   L  [The townsfolk promised . His quaestor C. Urbinus and some others recognised what he wanted, and whenever they invited him to dinner, they were more lavish than is usual for Romans or indeed for any mortal. For after having exposed me, in spite of my youth, to a most cruel war, you have, so far as in you lay, destroyed me and a faithful army by starvation, the most wretched of all deaths. . [2.44] {2.47M}   L  #  A few days later Cotta changed his clothing, giving a very mournful appearance because the people did not support him as he wished, and he addressed the assembly as follows: I have encountered many dangers, fellow citizens, at home and abroad, and many adversities, some of which I have endured, some averted by the gods' help and my own courage; in all these I never lacked resolution to decide or energy to act. On the top couch was Antonius, and Versius, the secetary of Sertorius, was below him. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. # Then L.Octavius and C.Cotta became consuls {75 B.C.}. [4.50] {4.16M}   L  #  There was almost equal haste and great terror within the town, because they were afraid that the new fortifications, which were built of brick, would be weakened by the damp. He fears peace, hates war; he sees that he must sacrifice luxury and licence, and meanwhile he takes advantage of your indolence. seemed to be the best plan. Then, after burying their allies as well as they could and carrying off anything of use which was nearby, they went off to Spain, because there was no chance of achieving their current objective. After a few days had already been spent inconclusively, the Ligurian forces [withdrew] into the Alps. You seek harmony through war, by which the harmony which we had attained is broken, a traitor to us, unfaithful to your party, the enemy of all good citizens. by [intolerable] shortages in the [corn supply]. Citizens were not called "good" or "bad" according to their public conduct, because in that respect they were all equally corrupt; but those who were wealthiest, and most able to inflict harm, were considered "good" because they defended the existing state of affairs. He hoped] that by this unexpected threat he could recover a city which was suitable for transporting supplies from Italy. Or perhaps he does it to make a pretence of peace and harmony, which are the names which he has applied to his guilt and treason. Sallust, 86-34 B.C; Sallust, 86-34 B.C. . [1.10] {1.11M}   L  Discord, avarice, ambition and all the other evils which arise from great good fortune, increased greatly after the destruction of Carthage. Huic ab adulescentia bella intestina, caedes, rapinae, discordia civilis grata fuere ibique iuventutem suam exercuit. 19 Let it be enough to have endured what our frenzy has brought about - Roman armies pitted against each other, our arms turned away from the enemy and against ourselves. 17 But you, Fathers of the Senate, how long will your hesitation leave your country undefended, and how long will you meet arms with words? . [ 5 lines missing ] . After they arrived in the territory of the Aresinarii with the entire fleet of warships, which had either been repaired or had not [been damaged in the storms] . 2 For even though you may detest war and arms, yet you must take them up because it is the will of Lepidus, unless perhaps anyone is disposed to grant him peace and at the same time to suffer war. This pdf includes the 121-page commentary with introduction and glossary. When I, therefore, without compulsion from the enemy, attempted to return into my kingdom, I lost the best of my soldiers and my fleets by shipwrecks at Parium and at Heracleia. [1.90] {1.100M}   L  #  It is said that he contemplated escaping into the distant Ocean, where there are known to be two islands {the "Blessed Isles"}, close by each other and about 10,000 stades away from Gades, which of their own accord provide food to nourish men. . [1.95] {1.108M}   L  #  When Fufidius arrived soon afterwards with his legions, he found that the banks were steep, the ford could not easily be crossed if they had to fight, and everything was more suitable to the enemy than to his men. Worn out by these difficulties, the people resorted to violence and attacked both the consuls, while they accompanied Q. Metellus (later called Creticus), who was a candidate for the praetorship, along the Sacred Way. . For just as in the case of prisoners that scanty supply keeps off death, but yet their strength wanes, so this small amount relieves you of no financial care and disappoints the slenderest hopes of the idle. GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS Bellum Catilinae. Adversity and prosperity changed my resources, not my character. the more eagerly you seek peace, the more cruel will the war be, when he finds that he can more safely rely upon your fears than upon the justice and righteousness of his cause. . . 21 You must guard against craft; for by no other means can they prevail against the people as a whole, and in that way only will they attempt to do so. 9 They took possession of Asia, and finally, on the death of Nicomedes, they seized upon all Bithynia, although Nysa, whom Nicomedes had called queen, unquestionably had a son. [4.67] {4.69M}   { The letter of Mithridates to Arsaces: }   L  #  King Mithridates, to King Arsaces, Greeting. Deutsche Übersetzungen von Sallust und die zugehörigen Texte auf lateinheft.de. And they were aided especially by the nobles, the greater number of whom were already giving expression to their confidence and adapting their conduct to their words. By that time, the autumn crops were already ripe [in the fields]. . 6 Therefore they have now, one and all, submitted to the mastery of a few men, who, under the pretext of carrying on a war, have taken possession of the treasury, the armies, the kingdoms and the provinces. Sertorius was lower down, on the middle couch. The Histories provided a detailed account of Roman history from 78 to 67 B.C, in five books. Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Catiline's War (about the conspiracy in 63 BC of L. Sergius Catilina), The Jugurthine War (about Rome's war against the Numidian King Jugurtha from 111 to 105 BC), and the Histories … 18 Let them hold their offices and administer them in their own way, let them seek triumphs, let them lead their ancestral portraits, against Mithridates, Sertorius, and what is left of the exiles, but let those who have no share in the profits be free also from dangers and toil. # The taking of the enemy's camp at Sucro,   # the battle at the river Turia, and the destruction of Gaius Herennius, leader of the enemy, together with his army and the city of Valentia, are well enough known to you. Therefore he tried to rival Alexander's achievements and plans. . I have not practised a calculating eloquence or used my talents for evil-doing. Later, when the Romans deliberately did not respond with either weapons or shouting, the enemy believed that they either were overcome with fright or had abandoned the fortifications, and the swiftest of them eagerly rushed into the ditches and then up the rampart. Once vagabonds without fatherland, without parents, created to be the scourge of the whole world, no laws, human or divine, prevent them from seizing and destroying allies and friends, those near them and those afar off, weak or powerful, and from considering every government which does not serve them, especially monarchies, as their enemies. *FREE* shipping on eligible orders. Chr., † 78 v. Chr. . [ 2 lines missing ] . Stung by these [taunts], the young men ignored the decrees of their elders . They are a treacherous people, either because of their fickle temperament, or because they distrust their allies. 16 But Sulla says that I am a sower of sedition, because I protest against the rewards paid to civil commotion; a lover of war, because I would reclaim the rights of peace. . Catilina 26 Addeddate 2011-07-08 23:07:19 Call number 10 Behold, here I stand, Gaius Cotta, your consul! Continue as you have begun, in order that as soon as possible you may meet with your deserts. . Lateinischer Text: Deutsche Übersetzung: Bellum Catilinae: Kapitel 9: Igitur domi militiaeque boni mores colebantur; concordia maxuma, minuma avaritia erat; ius bonumque apud eos … After a few days, they were forced to surrender because of lack of water. gaius sallustius crispus De Catilinae coniuratione [1] Omnis homines, qui sese student praestare ceteris animalibus, summa ope niti decet, ne vitam silentio transeant veluti pecora, quae natura prona atque ventri oboedientia finxit. 16 That supreme power of the consuls, and those potent decrees of the senate, you yourselves ratify, citizens, by executing them; and you hasten voluntarily to increase and strengthen their despotism over you. He had at his command the kingdom of Ariobarzanes, unravaged by war, while I, since all the country about me had been devastated, withdrew into Armenia. 2 Was it with such expectations that the Roman people sent its sons to war? 23 For my own part I am fully convinced that Pompeius, a young man of such renown, prefers to be the leading man of the state with your consent, rather than to share in their mastery, and that he will join you and lead you in restoring the power of the tribunes. . After that, the nobles began to rule the plebs like their slaves, making decisions about their lives and bodies in the manner of kings; and confiscating their land, so that the nobles alone exercised power, with the others excluded. . 6 When Antiochus came to his aid, they craftily diverted him from his purpose by the surrender of Asia, and then, after Philippus' power had been broken, Antiochus was robbed of all the territory this side Taurus, and of ten thousand talents. Without warning, he occupied the sacred mountain of the Great Mother, from where missiles could be hurled towards the top of the town. He proposed a law to reclaim the money, which Sulla had remitted to those who bought the possessions {of proscribed men}. . 10 Why should I mention my own case? [4.1] {4.1M}   L  #  It is uncertain whether his colleague Cn. But the inhabitants, trusting in [the strength of] the site, made no change from their original intentions. Neores did not assist either side with provisions, and they both suffered from lack of food. . Meanwhile he gave a conciliatory reply to their envoys and said that the surrender could be arranged more easily when everyone was present. Catilina de salluste by Présenté par Paul Delacroix and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. 15 If you are men, is anything left to you except to put an end to oppression or to die valiantly? 13 I pray you consider how the order of things is inverted; formerly public mischief was planned secretly, public defence openly; and hence the good easily forestalled the wicked. . and this is not difficult if you on the side of Mesopotamia and we on that of Armenia surround their army, which is without supplies and without allies, and has been saved so far only by its good fortune or by our own errors. Worst of all, he has hitherto been protected by the enormity of his crimes, while you are deterred from trying to recover your liberty by the fear of a still more cruel slavery. Therefore they first began a war with Philippus, king of Macedonia, having pretended to be his friends as long as they were hard pressed by the Carthaginians. . . The townsfolk willingly provided him with corn and other provisions; and to avoid suspicion, he placed his camp on open ground. For of a truth Nature has appointed one and the same end for all, even for those encased in steel, and no one awaits the last necessity, daring nothing, unless he has the heart of a woman. . 11 For he is hounded and tormented in mind by ambition and terror because of his crimes, uneasy and at his wits' end, resorting now to this plan, now to that. When military cloaks appeared out of the baggage, and select cohorts began to be recognised . # In fact, although Lucius Sicinius, who was the first to dare to speak about the tribunician power, was cut off while you only murmured, yet his slayers feared your displeasure even before you resented the wrongs done against you. [3.7] {3.6M}   L  [Antonius] was [separated from] the enemy by the [very deep] river Dilunus, which even a small force of the enemy could prevent him from crossing. On the one hand, I fear that you may be outwitted through not believing others capable of acts which you yourselves regard as abominable; especially since all Sulla's hopes depend upon crime and treachery, and since he thinks that he cannot be safe, unless he has shown himself ever worse and more detestable than you fear, so that when you are enslaved to him, you may cease because of your wretchedness to think of freedom. . See key to translations for an explanation of the format. They can be recognised by their clothes, their demeanour and their beards. 12 Further progress was frustrated by Archelaus, basest of slaves, who betrayed my army; and those whom cowardice or misplaced cunning kept from taking up arms, since they hoped to find safety in my misfortunes, are suffering most cruel punishment. [2.69] {2.87M}   L  #  . Verily, such an act is much nearer the condition in which he now finds himself than are peace and concord to civil arms. I do what our ancestors often did in adverse wars; I consecrate myself and offer my life for my country. As it is, they are on their guard, and if you do not gain the victory, they will hold you in tighter bonds, since the greater the injustice, the greater its safety. . . [1.8] {1.7M}   L  The first discord among us arose from the failings of the human character, which is restless and untameable in its struggle for freedom, or glory, or power. they turned onto an impassable route. De Coniuratione Catilinae / Die Verschworung DES Catilina by Sallust (1997-09-01): Sallust: Books - Amazon.ca 5 All these things that caricature of Romulus holds in his possession, as if they had been wrested from foreigners; and not content with their destruction of so many armies, consuls, and other leading men, whom the fortune of war had swept away, he grows more cruel at a time when success turns most men from wrath to pity. All those who in the time of their prosperity are asked to form an offensive alliance ought to consider, first, whether it is possible for them to keep peace at that time; and secondly, whether what is asked of them is wholly right and safe, honourable or dishonourable. Many successes were achieved under his leadership, but these have not been recorded in history, firstly because of his humble birth and secondly because the historians were ill-disposed towards him. . 27 If you are of the same mind, citizens of Rome, rouse yourselves and with the kindly aid of the gods follow Marcus Aemilius, your consul, who will be your leader and champion in recovering your freedom! 10 Or are you waiting for Lepidus to come again with an army and enter our city with fire and sword? . Octavius was slothful and negligent; Cotta was more active, but with his political ambitions and natural lavishness he hoped to gain the favour of individuals . But [the slaves] were almost at blows with each other, because they could not agree on a plan of action; Crixus and his fellow Gauls and Germans wanted to go out to confront [the Romans] and offer battle, while Spartacus [argued against attacking them]. 6 Why need I enumerate our battles or our winter campaigns, the towns which we destroyed or captured? Everywhere men and women came together along the streets and houses to watch him as he passed by. [ 2 lines missing ] . [that they should] not, [wandering around] in the way that they were at that time . 9 On the death of Sulla, who had imposed this infamous slavery upon you, you believed that your troubles were ended; up rose Catulus, a tyrant far crueller than Sulla. When these had overcome me along with my country, when in need of others' help, I looked for still greater calamities, you, fellow citizens, gave me back my country and my fathers' gods, and added to them your highest mark of distinction. now and tormented those who remained in a shocking way with horrible wounds, and sometimes left their mutilated bodies still half alive. And although he had some barges, which had been constructed secretly during the winter . 3 But the considerations which might seem to give you pause, such as the anger against Tigranes inspired in you by the recent war, and my lack of success, if you but consent to regard them in the right light, will be special incentives. 22 You will gain the glory of having rendered aid to great kings and of having crushed the plunderers of all the nations. Surely I have committed a crime too great to be expiated by all the torments related of the Nether World. The work under review here is the revised and expanded version of A. Are you not ashamed either before men or before the gods, whom you have insulted by your perfidy or perjury? Then the next consuls, Lucius Lucullus and Marcus Cotta {74 B.C. 17 Do you not know that the Romans turned their arms in this direction only after Ocean had blocked their westward progress? . When it became known that Pompeius was approaching with a hostile army, the elders persuaded them to accept peace and to obey the commands [of the Romans]. When he reclined, he usually wore a coloured toga instead of a cloak. 15 O vilest and most shameless of all men, do you take to heart the poverty and grief of the citizens, when you have nothing in your possession which was not seized by arms or by injustice! 10 There was an outbreak in the consulship of Brutus and Mamercus {77 B.C. The feasts were most exotic, with many kinds of birds and animals which were previously unknown, brought not only from throughout the province, but over the sea from Mauretania. 25 If this seems to you to be peace and order, show your approval of the utter demoralization and overthrow of the republic, bow to the laws which have been imposed upon you, accept a peace combined with servitude and teach future generations how to run their country at the price of their own blood. 17 I do not urge you to avenge your wrongs, but rather to seek quiet; and it is not because I desire discord, as they charge, but because I wish to put an end to it, that I demand restitution according to the law of nations. What divine laws have not been violated? [3.79] {3.83M}   L  #  And so they reclined to eat. }, who were greatly agitated by Pompeius' letters and messages, both because of the interests of the state and because they feared that, if he led his army into Italy, they would have neither glory nor position, used every means to provide him with money and reinforcements. . *FREE* shipping on eligible orders. Then Pompeius [advanced] with his army in a square formation . 100 The fragment numbers in McGushin's translation are shown in red. Catilina; Dietsch, Heinrich Rudolf, 1814-1875. . [2.42] {2.45M}   L  . Their hill was surrounded by sea on both sides and to the rear, and [in addition] the front was narrow with a sandy approach; and they [had fortified it] with a double wall. # Unless perhaps it was from another motive than fear that Gaius Cotta, a consul chosen from the heart of the aristocratic party, restored some of their rights to the people's tribunes. . and so they should [leave as quickly as possible]. He led them at full speed against the slaves' camp, but now they were quiet and did not enter battle as boastfully as they had previously demanded it. 8 On the contrary, he has sunk so low that he thinks nothing glorious which is not safe, and regards every means of retaining his supremacy as honourable. It is your task to find someone to whom you may entrust the state; 11 for no good man will desire such an honour, when one must render an account for the vagaries of fortune, for the uncertainties of the sea, and for war brought on by others, or else must die a shameful death. A. Novokhatko’s Moscow Ph. But the second Punic War put an end to the discord and struggles between the classes. Then the Roman army went off into the territory of the Vascones to gather food, and Sertorius also moved his position, because it was of great importance for him to retain easy access to [Gaul] and Asia. Sallust's Bellum Catilinae (1st ed., pdf. 5 I recovered Gaul, the Pyrenees, Lacetania, and the Indigetes; with raw soldiers and far inferior numbers I withstood the first onslaught of triumphant Sertorius; and I spent the winter in camp amid the most savage of foes, not in the towns or in adding to my own popularity. . Overcome by this sudden menace, some of them were struck down on the earthworks, while others fell on their own weapons. . 17 Of course! . But Varinius, when it was now fully light, noticed the absence of the slaves' usual taunts, of the showers of stones thrown into the camp, and of the shouts and din of men [rushing all around]. Then he advised them to go off into more open countryside, richer in cattle, where they could increase their numbers with picked men, before Varinius returned with a new army. . 8 Eumenes, whose friendship they boastfully parade, they first betrayed to Antiochus as the price of peace; later, having made him the guardian of a captured territory, they transformed him by means of imposts and insults from a king into the most wretched of slaves. And I was not unaware of their design, but I had previously given warning of what afterwards happened, both to the Cretans, who alone retained their freedom at that time, and to king Ptolemy. 14 You have even beheld human sacrifices and tombs stained with the blood of citizens. If they persist in refusing this, I do not advise war or secession, but merely that you should refuse any longer to shed your blood for them. The enemy, a cowardly race of poorly-armed Greeks and Africans, did not resist them any further. Think you it is the soldiers, at the price of whose blood riches are won for vile slaves such as Tarula and Scirtus?