See nex in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "How could you be without it much longer — that which you were accustomed to venerate when setting out for slaughter — [and] from whose altars you have often transferred that wicked right hand of yours to the murder of citizens?\n(Refers to a symbolic aquila, the standard of a Roman military force, that Catiline had kept enshrined in his own home.)",
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"text": "Tū ut illa carēre diūtius possīs — quam venerārī ad caedem proficīscēns solēbās — ā cuius altāribus saepe istam impiam dexteram ad necem cīvium trānstulistī?",
"translation": "How could you be without it much longer — that which you were accustomed to venerate when setting out for slaughter — [and] from whose altars you have often transferred that wicked right hand of yours to the murder of citizens?\n(Refers to a symbolic aquila, the standard of a Roman military force, that Catiline had kept enshrined in his own home.)",
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"translation": "How could you be without it much longer — that which you were accustomed to venerate when setting out for slaughter — [and] from whose altars you have often transferred that wicked right hand of yours to the murder of citizens?\n(Refers to a symbolic aquila, the standard of a Roman military force, that Catiline had kept enshrined in his own home.)",
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