As
 long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, yet shall live; but you shall live as you
 do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one
 finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have
 hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them. 
 For what is there, O Catiline, that you can still expect, if night is not able to veil your
 nefarious meetings in darkness, and if private houses cannot conceal the voice of your
 conspiracy within their walls;—if everything is seen and displayed? Change your mind: trust me:
 forget the slaughter and conflagration you are meditating. You are hemmed in on all sides; all
 your plans are clearer than the day to us; let me remind you of them. Do you recollect that on the 21st of October I said in the senate, that on a
 certain day, which was to be the 27th of October, C. Manlius, the satellite and servant of your
 audacity, would be in arms? Was I mistaken, Catiline, not only in so important, so atrocious,
 so incredible a fact, but, what is much more remarkable, in the very day? I said also in the
 senate that you had fixed the massacre of the nobles for the 28th of October, when many chief
 men of the senate had left Rome , not so much for the
 sake of saving themselves as of checking your designs. Can you deny that on that very day you
 were so hemmed in by my guards and my vigilance, that you were unable to stir one finger
 against the republic; when you said that you would be content with the flight of the rest, and
 the slaughter of us who remained? What? when you made sure
 that you would be able to seize Praeneste on the
 first of November by a nocturnal attack, did you not find that that colony was fortified by my
 order, by my garrison, by my watchfulness and care? You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think
 of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
 
 Listen while I speak of the night before. You shall now see that I watch far more actively
 for the safety than you do for the destruction of the republic. I say that you came the night
 before (I will say nothing obscurely) into the Scythe-dealers' street, to the house of Marcus
 Lecca; that many of your accomplices in the same insanity and wickedness came here too. Do you
 dare to deny it? Why are silent? I will prove it if you do deny it; for I see here in the
 senate some men who were there with you. O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? in what city are we living? what constitution is
 ours? There are here,—here in our body, O conscript fathers, in this the most holy and
 dignified assembly of the whole world, men who meditate my death, and the death of all of us,
 and the destruction of this city, and of the whole world. I, the consul see them; I ask them
 their opinion about the republic, and I do not yet attack, even by words, those who ought to be
 put to death by the sword. You were, then, O Catiline, at Lecca's that night; you divided
 Italy into sections; you settled where every one was
 to go; you fixed whom you were to leave at Rome , whom
 you were to take with you; you portioned out the divisions of the city for conflagration; you
 undertook that you yourself would at once leave the city, and said that there was then only
 this to delay you, that I was still alive. Two Roman knights were found to deliver you from
 this anxiety, and to promise that very night, before daybreak, to slay me in my bed. All this I knew almost before your meeting had broken up. I
 strengthened and fortified my house with a stronger guard; I refused admittance, when they
 came, to those whom you sent in the morning to salute me, and of whom I had foretold to many
 eminent men that they would come to me at that time. 
 As, then, this is the case, O Catiline, continue as you have begun. Leave the city at last
 the gates are open; depart. That Manlian camp of yours has been waiting too long for you as its
 general. And lead forth with you all your friends, or at least as many as you can; purge the
 city of your presence; you will deliver me from a great fear, when there is a wall between me
 and you. Among us you can dwell no longer—I will not bear it, I will not permit it, I will not
 tolerate it..