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Quotation from First Oration Against Catiline by Marcus Tullius Cicero
“purge the city of your presence; you will deliver me from a great fear, when there is a wall between me and you.”
First Oration Against Catiline, Section 10, trans. C. D. Yonge (1856)
The central command of the speech: not death, but departure from Rome to the camp of Manlius.
Citation: "purge the city of your presence; you will deliver me from a great fear, when there is a wall between me and you." — Marcus Tullius Cicero, First Oration Against Catiline, Section 10, trans. C. D. Yonge (1856). (id cicero-first-catilinarian-q4)
Portrait: Cicerone denuncia CatilinaCicero Denounces Catiline, Cesare Maccari, Public domain.
