| A | B |
| castra | 'camps - neuter subject' |
| collocata | 'with sunt - the main verb - camps have been placed |
| populum | 'acc. after contra = against the Roman people' |
| faucibus | 'with in |
| dies | 'with in - this becomes adverbial - day by day |
| crescit | 'it grows |
| numerus | 'subject of crescit- number of enemies grows' |
| hostium | 'genitive - of enemies' |
| eorum | 'describing castrorum - of these camps' |
| autem | 'however' |
| imperatorem | 'the commander (of these camps)' |
| ducemque | 'and general/leader of the enemies (hostium)' |
| intra | 'within |
| moenia | 'walls - within the walls' |
| atque | and |
| adeo | 'what is more - an adverb' |
| videtis | 'you (pl) see in the senate' |
| intestinam | internal |
| aliquam | some |
| perniciem | 'destruction - whole acc. phrase is some internal destruction |
| molientem | 'devising - this refers to Catiline - you see him devising some internal destruction' |
| reipublicae | 'FOR the state - this is dative' |
| si | 'if -starts out this future more vivid conditional' |
| iussero | 'I will have ordered' |
| te | 'you - DO of iussero - so |
| comprehendi | 'to be arrested' |
| interfici | 'to be killed - so: if I will have ordered you to be arrested |
| credo | 'I believe - this is a side comment |
| verendum | 'I must fear or I will have to fear - passive periphrastic = erit verendum mihi' |
| ne | 'that - in a fear clause |
| potius | 'setting up 2 parallel phrases |
| boni | 'goes with omnes - all good citizens |
| hoc | 'subject of indirect statement with factum esse - THAT this has happened/been done' |
| me | 'abl of agent - a me= by me' |
| serius | 'too late - comparative adverb' |
| quisquam | 'anyone' |
| crudelius | 'too cruelly - another comparative adverb' |
| dicat | 'final sentence here: ne...dicat = that all good men might say that this has been done by me too late rather than that someone might say this has been done too cruelly' |