Editing Catilinarian orations (section)

== Third Catilinarian ==
{{anchor|Oratio in Catilinam Tertia ad Populum|The Third Oration}}

Cicero claimed that the city should rejoice because it had been saved from a bloody rebellion. He presented evidence that all of Catiline's accomplices confessed to their crimes. He asked for nothing for himself but the grateful remembrance of the city and acknowledged that the victory was more difficult than one in foreign lands because the enemies were citizens of Rome.