Note 9 — CICERO AGAINST CATILINE

: reprimendorum: here used in the sense of impediendorum: “of preventing your plans being carried out.” This is probably a rhetorical flourish on the part of Cicero, as no such fact is mentioned by Sallust. Among those who fled, according to Plutarch, was M. Crassus. num—dicebas! “Can you deny that on that very day, beset by the guards I had placed, by my watchfulness, you could take not one step against the state, when on the departure of the others you, nevertheless, expressed yourself satisfied with the murder of us who remained?” —discessu ceterorum: the ablative here supplies the place of a participial abl. absol. —nostra—caede—qui: the relative is made to refer to an antecedent implied in nostra: H. 445, 6. —quum: is often used by Cicero in the impf. indic. when the bare notion of time or of continuance is to be expressed. —remansissemus: virtual oblique narrative: hence the subjunctive.