Note 10 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: quae—afuit: “what act of impurity ever was strange to your eyes, what enormity to your hands, what pollution to your whole body?” —libido; licentiousness, in a general sense; facinus, a bold, daring deed, in a bad sense, unless justified by some favourable epithet: flagitium, a disgraceful, lustful excess.