Note 7 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: exhaurietur—reipublicae: “there shall be drained off from the city a great and destructive refuse of the state composed of your comrades.” Exhaurio: cp. ἀντλέω properly to drain the bilge water (ἄντλος sentina) out of the hold of a vessel. —tuorum comitum: this secondary genitive is one of explanation (expexegetical).