De Coniuratione Catilinae

The purpose of this work is to offer students the possibility of reading an original Latin text without
having to use the unfortunately frequent resource of the bilingual edition. I try to offer in the margin
of the page the meaning for difficult or unusual words by means of synonims, antonyms, definitions,
offering the same words but in another order, etc., but using only the same language in which the text
was written.
Reading an original text will always remain a very difficult task, so that it is normal that even with the
provided glosses and explanations etc. the meaning of some parts remain obscure and students have to
resource to a translation to understand what the text says, but trying to remain inside the language
itself as much as possible will help in the task of learning it.
I have renounced to an initial idea of giving additional information, like indicating the different parts
of the work (Exordium, Narratio, etc. if for instance it is a speech), as the student can easily find this
somewhere else, I limit my help to the language field. Students should face this text after they have
got all that information about it, once they know what they are going to read.