Note 10 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE

: vocis—contumeliam ... judicio taciturnitatis: Chiasmus. —vocis—taciturnitatis = loquentium—tacitorum: “are you waiting for reproofs from those speaking, when you are overpowered by the most solemn sentence of those, though they are silent.” The reference is to the fact that the Senate had declared Catiline patriae hostis, and had received him with silence on entering the Senate.