Professor Beard spots a sign at a demonstration, and discusses how some still use Cicero's words to protest political overreach.
Someone needs to say the same to the US President.
Cicero's entire speech can be found HERE
WHEN, 1 O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now? Do not the nightly guards placed on the Palatine Hill—do not the watches posted throughout the city—does not the alarm of the people, and the union of all good men—does not the precaution taken of assembling the senate in this most defensible place—do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present, have any effect upon you? Do you not feel that your plans are detected?
and the cartoon explanation of what the Catiline conspiracy was about:
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