Cicero's Response To Cataline

Throughout Cicero’s first oration against Cataline, he spends quite some time talking very negatively towards Cataline. He speaks directly to him and explains in front of the entire court his malice personality. Thus, Cicero’s strategy for getting Cataline to incriminate himself is to list his flaws and evil plans to maybe destroy the world. For example, he states, “notat et designat oculis ad caedem unum quemque nostrum” (Henderson). Translating this reveals that Cataline is picking out the figures in the court to kill, according to Cicero. He uses a metaphor in this sentence to rhetorically persuade his audience by saying the phrase “notat et designat.” This was a phrase that meant the act marking different animals to be waiting for their sacrificed (Yonge). Cicero compares this the way Cataline’s brain functions and may offend the people of the Senate. Thus, he is furthering the argument that Cataline is in fact insane, which will hopefully lead to his sentence of death.
There are numerous leaders in the 20th-21st century that have faced some sort of domestic security crisis.
The most prominent threat in contemporary society is the effects of the War of Terror, such as 9/11 and the influences of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. However, there is an emerging terrorism threat to the United States that President Obama had to start dealing with. This is the threat of domestic cyber-security not being maintained and sustained. President Obama once gave a speech at the 2015 Cyber-security and Consumer Protection Summit in Stanford California’s honored university. His brief speech talked about both past threats when computers were rising in popularity, and the serious threats the country is now facing (Obama). The style of this press release can be compared to how Cicero spoke to the Senate when attempting to condemn
Cataline. The major similarity between the orations of Cicero and President Obama is that they both share the information of the enemy. This is an extremely effective way of writing to persuade the audience, whether it be the Roman Senate or college students in the 21st century. As mentioned before, Cicero does this in his introductory remarks to expose Cataline’s plan for taking over the Republic. President Obama does this when talking about hackers. He says our targets are the “hackers from China and Russia who go after our defense contractors and systems that are built for our troops” (Obama). This directing the audience to believe that these hackers are a genuine threat. In addition, both speakers structure some sentences to be a list. President Obama does this when listing the ways young generations can help the country. Likewise, Cicero states the different situations where the Senate grew weak. One can pick out Ciceronian ways of speaking, such as rhetoric and sentence structure, in President Obama’s speech concerning the developing threat of cyber-terrorism.