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Marcus Tullius Cicero [January 3, 106 B.C. - December 7, 43 B.C.] made as his theme the phrase 'O tempora o mores' in his First Oration against [Lucius Sergius] Catilina [108-62 B.C.]. The phrase has been rendered into English as follows: 'Oh the times! Oh the customs!' For Cicero and Catilina were enemies. Catilins was involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic and its aristocratic Senate. Cicero argued that rebellious consuls previously had been eliminated on far less evidence than what was available against Catilina. And he berated the changed times, and the consequently less satisfactory ways of ridding him of this meddlesome conspirator.

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