Note 7 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE
Reading edition
: num—est? “Did the punishment of death inflicted by the state cause L. Saturninus, the tribune of the people, and C. Servilius, the praetor, to wait for a single day?” —mors ac rei publicae poena = mortis poena a re publica inflicta. —at vero: “but we assuredly.”