This useful school edition of all four of Cicero 's speeches against Catiline was originally published in the University Tutorial series. Long unavailable, it is now reprinted in paperback. It consists of a concise but thorough Introduction giving background on Cicero, Roman history, the history of the Catilinarian conspiracies and a chronological table, the full Latin text interspersed with English summaries, and notes on the text to aid translation. The book is completed by an index of names.