Note 15 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: perniciem—conjunctum: “that my destruction was linked with the signal downfall of the state” —pernicies: from per- root nec: cp. nex, noceo, hence utter destruction —calamitas: another form is cadamitas: from cado, to fall: for the interchange of d and l: cp. odere, olere: dingua, lingua.