Note 5 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
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: quas—senties: “which you will find wholly threaten you on the next Ides.” On the ides it was usual to pay interest on borrowed money, cp. Hor. Ep. 2. The ides (idus, from iduare, to divide) were on the 13th of each month, except in March, May, July, October, when they fell on the 15th. As this oration was delivered on the 8th, Catiline had only five days to prepare against bankruptcy. Decline idus? What words are fem. of 4th decl.?