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To what length will you abuse our patience, Catiline?

— Cicero In Catilinam I – Against Catiline (-63)

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?

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Speech I

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"When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience?" by Charles Duke Yonge (M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.)

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