“O, the times! O, the morals!”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Speech I
In Catilinam I – Against Catiline (63 B.C)
Variant: O the times! O, the customs!

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O tempora! O mores!

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Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BC

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