Note 8 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: non—reipublicae: “it must not again and again depend on one man that the existence of the state should be in peril:” or, “the safety of the state must not be often exposed to danger by one man.” A similar expression is found: Cic. Pro. Rosc. Amer. 51. 148: summa res publica in hujus periculo tentatur.