Obama is the modern Cataline, the Progressives his followers.
Yur cute! How many posts are you gonna wait till you translate?
So, Cicero hated cats?...................
Cataline was a crass, pleasure loving, amoral privileged Roman who made common political cause with the poor and unducated to enhance his own wealth and power. Cicero understood that such people were a greater threat to the entire Roman nation and culture than all their foreign enemies combined. In modern day America, the appearances are different, but the characters and themes are the same.
One of my absolute favorites from Cicero. Used to be able to read it in the original, now my latin has sadly decayed to uselessness and trivia.
It’s all Greek to me.
I presented this oration for an oratory contest when I was in high school. Won the district finals as I recall.
Some of the best historical novels about ancient Rome I have ever read are from Robert Harris. His trilogy on Cicero is fantastic and often very true to the historical record.
https://www.amazon.com/Imperium-Novel-Ancient-Robert-Harris/dp/0743498666
By the way, the audio CDs for each book are wonderfully done. I listened to the third one this summer and found it absolutely gripping: https://www.amazon.com/Dictator-novel-Robert-Harris/dp/0399567852/ref=tmm_abk_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I had a professor once from Denmark who was in the US on a one-year appointment (he could have stayed longer but his wife didn’t like living here). He thought Catalina Island off the California coast was named for Catiline. I explained to him it was named for St. Catherine.
In response:
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The really interesting one was Cicero’s secretary/slave. If he hadn’t have written down Cicero’s speeches we would know nothing about him.